Ibn Khaldun Quotes

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

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

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

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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.

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

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

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

Reading maketh a full man.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.