Confucius Quotes

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

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

Education is very important, and I understand that.

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

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

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.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

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

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

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

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.