Alice James Quotes

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

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Who knows most, doubts most.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

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.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

The value of a good education has never left me.