Quotes About Learning

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Knowledge must become capability.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

The best prescription is knowledge.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.