Frederic Bastiat Quotes

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

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

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

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.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind.

There is no time to cease learning. Only after you have closed the lid on the coffin does learning cease.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

Among the first, perhaps the very first, instrument for the improvement of the condition of men is knowledge, and to the acquisition of much of the knowledge adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential.

If you're not learning, you don't progress.

I think once you stop learning, you're going to stop growing.

I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology.

Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.