Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.”

— Proverbs 16:22 Bible KJV

“The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do…

— Idries Shah

“Man has no understanding , he can be taught a few simple tricks nothing more. He is a nuisance, the sooner he is exterminated…

— Dr. Zauius Planet of the apes

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.”

— Tryon Edwards

“I have learned these lessons the hard way every time I deviated from them. Let my stalls, sputters, dead-ends and surgeries be your lessons.…

— Dan John

“The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What we know might actually mask what we don’t know and impede our ability to learn and perform. All”

— Liz Wiseman

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I call him truly learned who brings everything to bear on the truth, so that from geometry, music, grammar, and philosophy itself, culling what…

— Clement of Alexandria

“...a boy learns better what he teaches himself....”

— Christopher Milne

“I thought about the hours we spent practicing increasingly complex math problems. He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were…

— J.D. Vance

“One who learns all he can is on the path to know all he must.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo