William Arthur Ward Quotes

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

I like to read and understand.

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

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.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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.

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

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I do think observing is important in learning.

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.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

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.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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

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

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

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