Cyril Joad Quotes

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

The secret of success lies in investing into education, as the wealthy countries do. This means not in technology and machines first. That would come later, with educated and qualified individuals. Considering that we are lagging behind reforms, the only way to make up for such gap is to have a non-linear development by making leaps, all of which would be have an education as a base. Education, training, knowledge, are the major driving forces of progress.

The most important resource of counties of the future will be the number of math trained brains.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.