Charles Babbage Quotes

Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

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

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

The strength of a nation is its knowledge.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

Education brightens a darkened world.

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

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

What you learn is more important than what you earn.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.