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Quotes About Learning

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
~ J. M. Coetzee
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.
~ Mark Van Doren
If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.
~ Studs Terkel
A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.
~ Karl Jaspers
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
~ Holbrook Jackson
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
~ Max Planck
Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
~ Nhat Hanh
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
~ Louis Nizer
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
~ Laozi
The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
~ Helen Keller
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Information is not knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.
~ Chet Raymo
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
~ Mark Twain
This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.
~ Paolo Uccello
A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
~ Albert Einstein
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason