Walt Disney Quotes

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

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

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

Philosophical ideas and sayings are great. They give us a little boost, a nudge in the arm, a fire in the belly.