Confucius Quotes

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

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

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Few things are as essential as education.

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

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.