Leonard Peikoff Quotes

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

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

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

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

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

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

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.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Experience is a great teacher.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

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

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.