Hope Jahren Quotes

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subject than others of your standing, reflect that have had greater opportunity …

Exterminate learning and there will be no more worries.

When people are educated, class distinction disappears.

Men and women cannot be really free until they have plenty to eat, and time and ability to read and think and talk things over.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

To work in a treadmill all one's life, to wear oneself to the bone all one's days, is not conducive to the outflowering of genius. If we desire a real crop of great art, great poetry, great thinking, we must provide the proper conditions.