Red Grange Quotes

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

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

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.