Knowledge Stagnation Quotes

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.

When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.