Jonathan Swift Quotes

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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.

Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon everyone to acquire it.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

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.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Having an education is invaluable.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.