Thomas Browne Quotes

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

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

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Much learning does not teach sense.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

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

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.