Saint Augustine Quotes

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

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.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

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

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

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

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

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.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.