Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes

Some people still think knowledge is power.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

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

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

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

There is no substitute for knowledge.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

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.

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.