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Quotes About Learning

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.
~ Aga Khan IV
"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"
~ Claire Fagin
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
~ Kenneth M. Stampp
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
~ Robert Quillen
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
~ Juvenal
Not all knowledge comes from college.
~ Mike Rowe
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.
~ Humayun Azad
Always be humble enough to learn something new. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before your knowledge becomes outdated.
~ Clinton Anderson
The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al
~ Al-Ghazali
Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
~ Abdullah ibn Mubarak
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.
~ Paul Halmos
Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.
~ Adrian Rogers
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
~ Charles Darwin
In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.
~ John F. Kennedy
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
~ Augustus Hare
Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.
~ Wang Yangming
Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.
~ William H. Gray III
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
~ Democritus