Frits Zernike Quotes

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

I like to read and understand.

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.