Prioritizing Knowledge Quotes

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.

There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.