Agnes Repplier Quotes

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

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

We will acquire knowledge and science wherever they are to be found and we will stuff them into the head of every individual in the country. No limits, no conditions can be attached to knowledge and science.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

That process of exposure to diverse opinions isn't 'brainwashing' - it's education.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

Much learning does not teach sense.

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.

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

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but rather, how to get to their own truth.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

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

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.