Maynard James Keenan Quotes

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

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

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

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

A man without education is an incomplete being.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

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

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

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 learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The value of a good education has never left me.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

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

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

Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

Certainly, the illiterates of past centuries, then an enormous majority of mankind, knew little of the history of their respective countries and of their civilization. In the minds of modern illiterates, however, who know how to read and write and even teach in schools and at universities, history is present but blurred, in a state of strange confusion; Molière becomes a contemporary of Napoleon, Voltaire, a contemporary of Lenin.

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?

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.