William Congreve Quotes

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

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.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

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

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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