Pablo Neruda Quotes

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

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

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

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

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics.

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

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

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

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