Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

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.

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

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

To me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet. That I haven’t understood enough. That I can’t know enough. That I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom… Those who tell you that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority: don’t think of that as a gift. Think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside, however tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

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

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

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

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

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.