Jules Renard Quotes

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

I didn't realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

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 difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

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

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.