The history of civilization can be expressed in six words: the more you know, the more you can. E. Abu
A very bad person who does not know anything, and does not try to find out anything. After all, it combined two vices. Abu'l-Faraj
The soul that lacks wisdom is dead. But if you enrich it with teaching, it will come to life, like an abandoned land on which rain has fallen. Abu'l-Faraj
It is not surprising that a large amount of knowledge, not being able to make a person smart, often makes him vain and arrogant. D. Addison
The school is a workshop where the thought of the younger generation is formed, you must hold it firmly in your hands if you do not want to let go of the future. A. Barbus
There are many kinds of education and development, and each of them is important in itself, but moral education should stand above all of them. V. G. Belinsky
You will never know enough unless you know more than enough. W. Blake
True knowledge does not consist in knowing the facts that make a man a mere pedant, but in using the facts that make him a philosopher. G. Buckle
We often meet people whose learning serves as a tool for their ignorance - people who the more they read, the less they know. G. Buckle
Education may turn a fool into a scientist, but it will never erase the original imprint. P. Boschen
The source of true knowledge is in the facts! P. Buast
Education is a treasure, work is the key to it. P. Buast
One should strive for knowledge not for the sake of disputes, not for the contempt of others, not for the sake of profit, fame, power or other goals, but in order to be useful in life. F. Bacon
Knowledge is power, power is knowledge. F. Bacon
Knowledge and power are one and the same. F. Bacon
We are most willing to talk about what we do not know. Because that's what we're thinking about. This is where the work of thought is directed, and it can only be directed here. P. Valerie
No one can be either omniscient or omnipotent. Virgil
Ignorance is not a lack of intelligence, and knowledge is not a sign of genius. L. Vauvenargues
The spirit is subject to the same law as the body - the impossibility of existence without constant nutrition. L. Vauvenargues
It is easier for us to acquire the gloss of omniscience than to thoroughly master a small amount of knowledge. L. Vauvenargues
It is no small merit to recognize as ignorance what others consider to be knowledge, and openly admit that you do not know what you really do not know. P. Gassendi
Re-reading books already read is the surest touchstone of learning. K. Goebbel
Whoever wants to achieve great things must be able to limit himself. Whoever, on the other hand, wants everything, really wants nothing and will achieve nothing. G. Hegel
Knowledge of certain principles easily compensates for ignorance of certain facts. K. Helvetius
Omniscience does not teach the mind. Heraclitus
There are no difficult subjects, but there is an abyss of things that we simply do not know, and even more of those that we know badly, incoherently, fragmentarily, even falsely. And this false information stops us and knocks us down even more than those that we do not know at all. A. I. Herzen
Knowledge is power, and the most petrified errors will not stand against this power, just as the inertia of the nature surrounding us did not stand against it. A. I. Herzen
If you lose interest in everything, you lose your memory. I. Goethe
You can only learn what you love. I. Goethe
Experience is the teacher of eternal life. I. Goethe
Acquiring knowledge is not enough for a person; one must be able to give it to growth. I. Goethe
Theory, my friend, is gray, but the eternal tree of life is green. I. Goethe
What they do not understand, they do not own. I. Goethe
A person must believe that the incomprehensible can be understood; otherwise, he would not think about it. I. Goethe
Man knows himself only to the extent that he knows the world. I. Goethe
The source of knowledge is inexhaustible: no matter what success humanity acquires along this path, all people will have to seek, discover and learn. I. A. Goncharov
To prove to a person the need for knowledge is the same as convincing him of the usefulness of sight. M. Gorky
Knowledge is the absolute value of our world. It is necessary to learn, it is necessary to know. The unknowable does not exist, we can only say that the unknown exists. M. Gorky
It is necessary to know not only in order to know, but in order to learn how to do. M. Gorky
Going to take the place of fathers and mothers, to help older brothers and sisters in their great work, the youth must tirelessly arm themselves with knowledge. M. Gorky
There is no weapon sharper than knowledge based on labor processes. M. Gorky
There is no power more powerful than knowledge: a man armed with knowledge is invincible. M. Gorky
The more a person knows, the stronger he is. M. Gorky
In order to live well, one must work well; in order to stand firmly on one's feet, one must know a lot. M. Gorky
The more enlightened a person is, the more useful he is to his society. A. S. Griboyedov
Mental occupations have such a beneficial effect on a person as the sun has on nature; they dispel a gloomier mood, gradually lighten, warm, uplift the spirit. W. Humboldt
Knowledge is a companion to a person on any path. D. Guramishvili
Education is a matter of conscience; education is a matter of science. Later, in the already formed man, both types of knowledge complement each other. V. Hugo
To educate the people means to make them better; to educate the people means to raise their morality; to make it literate is to civilize it. V. Hugo
The true cure for all suffering is an increase in the activity of the mind, the soul, which is achieved by an increase in education. J. Guyot
After bread, the most important thing for the people is school. J. Danton
The inquisitive seeks out rarities only to wonder at them; the inquisitive is then to get to know them and stop being surprised. R. Descartes
Many know-it-alls are not smart. Democritus
Neither art nor wisdom can be achieved unless they are learned. Democritus
The essence of the matter is not in the fullness of knowledge, but in the fullness of understanding. Democritus
In the spiritual life, as in practical life, the one in which the knowledge is held is always progressing and succeeding. W. James
Education gives dignity to a person, and the slave begins to realize that he was not born for slavery. D. Diderot
Education does not consist in the amount of knowledge, but in the full understanding and skillful application of all that one knows. A. Diesterweg
Wrong knowledge is worse than ignorance. A. Diesterweg
The weakness of the mind and (note) the character of many students and adults is due to their knowing everything somehow and nothing properly. A. Diesterweg
Skill must necessarily be associated with knowledge. It is a sad phenomenon when the student's head is filled with more or less knowledge, but he has not learned how to apply it, so that one has to say about him that although he knows something, he knows nothing. A. Diesterweg
With true knowledge, you will be much bolder and more perfect in every work than without it. A. Durer
Education is the face of the mind. qaboos
Socialism is a society of science and culture. And to be a worthy member of socialist society, one must study hard and well, one must know a lot. M. I. Kalinin
False learning is worse than ignorance. Ignorance is a bare field that can be cultivated and sown; false learning is a field overgrown with couch grass, which is almost impossible to weed out. C. Cantu
Experience takes a large price for teaching, but it also teaches better than all teachers. T. Carlyle
Learning is the sweet fruit of bitter wine. Cato the Elder
What could be more honest and noble than to teach others what you know best yourself? Quintilian
Knowledge is needed in life, like a rifle in battle. N. K. Krupskaya
What we know is limited, and what we do not know is infinite. P. Laplace
Without knowledge the workers are defenseless, with knowledge they are strength! V. I. Lenin
If I know that I know little, I will succeed in knowing more. V. I. Lenin
You can become a communist only when you enrich your memory with the knowledge of all the riches that humanity has developed. V. I. Lenin
Our school must give the youth the foundations of knowledge, the ability to work out communist views themselves, must make them educated people. V. I. Lenin
It is impossible to imagine the ideal of the future society without combining education with the productive labor of the younger generation. V. I. Lenin
Workers are drawn to knowledge because they need it to win. V. I. Lenin
In order to truly know an object, one must embrace, study all its aspects, all connections and “mediations”. We will never achieve this completely, but the requirement of comprehensiveness will warn us against mistakes. V. I. Lenin
Knowledge that is not born of experience, the mother of all certainty, is fruitless and full of errors. Leonardo da Vinci
There are no tortuous highways to knowledge: here everyone has to work and climb up, no matter how good the guide is. W. Liebknecht
A more even distribution of enlightenment is a requirement of culture. Only when the people have won political power will the gates of knowledge open before them. Without power there is no knowledge for the people! Knowledge is power! Power is knowledge! W. Liebknecht
The rapid accumulation of knowledge acquired with too little independent participation is not very fruitful. Scholarship can also give birth only to leaves without fruit. G. Lichtenberg
To be human means not only to have knowledge, but also to do for future generations what the previous ones did for us. G. Lichtenberg
Man was born to be the master, ruler, king of nature! But the wisdom with which he must rule is not given to him from birth: it is acquired by learning. N. I. Lobachevsky
The great art of learning a lot is to take on a little at once. D. Locke
Nothing teaches a person like experience. A. S. Makarenko
The real end of education comes only from life itself and the conscious self-activity of everyone. D. I. Mendeleev
The school is a huge force that determines the life and fate of the peoples and the state, depending on the main subjects and the principles embedded in the school education system. D. I. Mendeleev
And if it is true, as it is often asserted, that one cannot live without faith, then the latter cannot be other than faith in the omnipotence of knowledge. I. I. Mechnikov
I have known many people who possessed great knowledge and did not have a single thought of their own. W. Mizner
I can't imagine how one can be content with second-hand knowledge; although the knowledge of others may teach us something, one is wise only by one's own wisdom. M. Montaigne
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. M. Montaigne
You have to learn a lot to know even a little. C. Montesquieu
Those who love to learn are never idle. C. Montesquieu
Man strives for knowledge, and as soon as the thirst for knowledge dies away in him, he ceases to be a man. F. Nansen
Observation collects what nature offers it, while experience takes from nature what it wants. I. P. Pavlov
In every field of human knowledge there is an abyss of poetry. K. G. Paustovsky
Happiness is given only to those who know. The more a person knows, the sharper, the stronger he sees the poetry of the earth where a person with meager knowledge will never find it. K. G. Paustovsky
What good is it that you knew a lot, since you did not know how to apply your knowledge to your needs. F. Petrarch
Knowledge is made up of small grains of daily experience. D. I. Pisarev
Knowledge, and only knowledge, makes a person free and great. D. I. Pisarev
One must learn at school, but one must learn much more after leaving school, and this second teaching is immeasurably more important than the first in its consequences, in its influence on man and society. D. I. Pisarev
General education is the consolidation and understanding of the natural connection that exists between the individual and humanity. D. I. Pisarev
Very few people, and only the most remarkable ones, are able to simply and frankly say: “I don’t know.” D. I. Pisarev
Round ignorance is not the greatest evil; the accumulation of poorly acquired knowledge is even worse. Plato
Since the human mind can triumph over blind necessity only by knowing its own internal laws, only by beating it with its own strength, the development of knowledge, the development of human consciousness is the greatest, noblest task of a thinking person. G. V. Plekhanov
Education does not sprout in the soul if it does not penetrate to a considerable depth. Protagoras
Exercise, friends, is more than a good natural gift. Protagoras
Knowledge is not something finished, crystallized, dead, it is eternally created, eternally moving. D. N. Pryanishnikov
It is better not to know something at all than to know badly. Publilius Sir
The higher a person ascends in knowledge, the more extensive views are revealed to him. A. N. Radishchev
We should treat knowledge the same way we treat food. We don't live to know, just as we don't live to eat. D. Reskin
The main thing is not to accumulate as much knowledge as possible - the main thing is that this knowledge, great or small, belongs to you alone, to be infused with your blood, to be the brainchild of your own free efforts. R. Rollan
It is better to know the truth halfway, but on your own, than to know it entirely, but learn from other people's words and learn like a parrot. R. Rollan
A man is educated only by his own inner work, in other words, one's own, independent reflection, experience, re-feeling of what one learns from other people or from books. N. A. Rubakin
Any real education is obtained only through self-education. N. A. Rubakin
Knowledge should serve the creative ends of man. It is not enough to accumulate knowledge; they should be disseminated as widely as possible and applied in life. N. A. Rubakin
An educated person is a person who has his own worldview, his own opinions about all aspects and areas of life around him. N. A. Rubakin
An educated person sees different sides where a dark person does not see them, but sees only one of them and judges all the others by it. N. A. Rubakin
educated and intelligent person one can name only one who is like that through and through and shows his education and intelligence both in large and in small things, in everyday life, and throughout his whole life. N. A. Rubakin
Knowledge is armor against all troubles. A. Rudaki
Talent and knowledge are a bright light, without them there is no way out of the darkness. A. Rudaki
Knowing good is more important than knowing much. J.-J. Rousseau
A student who learns without desire is a bird without wings. Saadi
It is more useful to know a few wise rules that could always serve you than to learn many things that are useless to you. Seneca the Younger
An educated person differs from an uneducated person in that he continues to consider his education incomplete. K. Simonov
What could be more harmful than a person who has knowledge of the most complex sciences, but does not have a good heart? He uses all his knowledge for evil.
