T. S. Eliot Quotes

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.

In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.

I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

Life is the greatest teacher.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond measure...and they matter forever.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.