Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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

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.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

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

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

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.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

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

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

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

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

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

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

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 great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.