Paulo Freire Quotes

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

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.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

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

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

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

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better an actor you'll be.