A. J. Jacobs Quotes

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

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

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

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

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

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

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Everything is educational.