Sophie Swetchine Quotes

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Read in order to live.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Everything is a learning experience.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Knowledge is never too dear.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Information is not knowledge.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.