Laura Riding Quotes

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

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The book you don't read won't help.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

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

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

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.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

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

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do.

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

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

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

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

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.

Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before