Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I've followed freedom for a long time and I finally feel I've got more of it. People talk about the money that I've given up and the money that I've lost. But the knowledge and the wisdom that I've gotten from this experience is priceless.

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

James Remar is a student of life.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.