Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

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

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

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.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.

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

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

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

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

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

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.