Jostein Gaarder Quotes

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

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

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

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.

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

I think the more I learn, the more I see, and what you see makes your eyes and talent evolve.

Always educate yourself.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

We are wiser than we know.

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

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

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.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

How slowly one comes to understand anything!

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.