Jim Rohn Quotes

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

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

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.