Marcus Buckingham Quotes

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

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

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

I like to read and understand.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

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.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

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

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!