Confucius Quotes

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

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

I wouldn't be who I am and where I am today if it wasn't for years of education.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

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

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.