R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

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

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Education is very important, and I understand that.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I do think observing is important in learning.

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

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

I like to consume information. I like to learn.