Learning Without Thought Is Labor Lost Thought

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think - not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict ‘It is.”

Imagination is more important than knowledge

The most necessary part of learning is unlearning our errors.