David Hume Quotes

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

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.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Having an education is invaluable.

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

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

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

The value of a good education has never left me.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.