Jacob Bronowski Quotes

Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Information is not knowledge.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

I like to read and understand.

Education is understanding relationships.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

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

Read in order to live.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.