Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.
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