Educational Sayings

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

The wise man will not be content with the knowledge of things as they are, but will seek to know how they came to be so.

I never learned anything by being told, but only by doing.

The true way to learn God's will is to listen to his Word.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

I have been a fool, but I have learned from my folly.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I die as I have lived, a servant of science and a victim of the French Revolution.

I have been so much engaged in making experiments, that I have had no time to write letters.

Without observations, no science.

The book of nature is a fine and large piece of clock-work.

A student full of doubt is unable to move forwards and to judge well the truth.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my own ship.