Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Also attributed to: Unknown
Daniel J. Boorstin, “A Case of Hypochondria,” Newsweek.
Defines education as discovering the gaps in your own knowledge you never knew existed.
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An old dictionary defines “uranium” as “a rare, heavy, white metallic element, . .. has no important uses.” 283
— Unknown
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
— Socrates
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
— Joseph Brodsky
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
— Galileo Galilei
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. –Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
— Galileo Galilei
