William Hazlitt Quotes

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

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

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

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.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.