Charles Sumner Quotes

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

There is one thing that is only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

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.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

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

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

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

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.