Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.
The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.
Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.
Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.
There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.
My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
