Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

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

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

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

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

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

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

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

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I like to learn about things.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

I like to read and understand.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.