Richard Bach Quotes

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

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

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.