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Quotes About Learning

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.
~ Michael Polanyi
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
~ Bertolt Brecht
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.
~ Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.
~ Irina Bokova
Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.
~ Georges St-Pierre
Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.
~ Jonathan Gold
Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses
~ Gerald M. Loeb
It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.
~ Eric Schmidt
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
~ Walker Percy
The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.
~ Roger Scruton
Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
~ Mirra Komarovsky
Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
~ Hamza Yusuf
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
~ Anatol Rapoport
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
~ Plato
There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
~ Bill James
I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
~ Benjamin Carson
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
~ Gautama Buddha
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
~ Seneca the Younger
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
~ Ivan Panin
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.
~ Max Heindel
One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
~ Napoleon Hill