Douglas Hofstadter Quotes

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

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.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

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

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

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

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you is to always remain a child.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

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

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

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.