Quotes About Learning

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.

It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.