Fortune Magazine Quotes

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

If You Think Education Is Expensive, Wait Until You See How Much Ignorance Costs in the 21st Century.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

Learning is an unwelcome guest to the Devil, and therefore he would fain starve it out …. If ever there be any Considerable Blow given to the Devil's Kingdom, it must be, by Youth Excellently Educated.

Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth…

After all, a learned man is often not much better off than a man who knows a great many commonplace people.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

For me, education is very important. It opens up vistas of life and makes it easy for you to deal with it, because if you learn from other people's experiences, it enhances your life.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

I think the astute viewer can recognise I am the proper bloke, because I have a toolbox and can put things back together, and I can quote W. B. Yeats and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

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