J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

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

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

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

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

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

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.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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

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

Everything is educational.

I like to read and understand.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

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