Thomas More Quotes

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

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

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

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Education is our passport to the future.

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Exterminate learning and there will be no more worries.

The acquisition of knowledge was not for us so much a normal process of education as the storing up of weapons in an arsenal by means of which we hoped later to be able to hold our own in a hostile.

Education came to be one of the great preoccupations, enlightenment was viewed as the greatest single opportunity to escape .... Parents made untold sacrifice to secure learning for their children that they had been denied.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

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

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

The boy heaved a sigh. "I would ask to go with you," he said, " but I have to finish my lessons. I so look forward to the day when I know everything. Then I won't have to read any more books or do any more counting." Beatrix smiled. "I don't wish to be discouraging, Rye, but it's not possible to know everything." "Mama does." Rye paused reflectively. "At least, Papa says we mus t pretend she does, because it makes her happy." "Your father," Beatrix informed him with a laugh, " is one of the wisest men I've ever known.

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

Reading maketh a full man.

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