Echoes

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

The world will hardly admit of an excuse for a man leaving a coast unexplored he has once discovered.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ... Don't stop to marvel.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once. But can you really forbid a man from harboring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

He who lives sees much. He who travels sees more.

All men by nature desire to know.

Every Israelite has a duty to study whether he is poor or rich, whether healthy or suffering, whether young or very old and in failing strength, even if he is poor and supported by charity or begs from door to door.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Man is the only animal that knows nothing and can learn nothing without being taught.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.