Brian Eno Quotes

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

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.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.