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Quotes About Learning

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.
~ Sai Baba
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
~ Maya Angelou
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell
Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.
~ Athanasius Kircher
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
~ Robert Lynd
Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.
~ Paul Scott
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
~ Matthew Henry
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
~ John Locke
The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.
~ Peter Drucker
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
~ Barack Obama
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
~ John Locke
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.
~ Peter Drucker
Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way... but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you... only knowledge.
~ Narendra Modi
When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.
~ Lord Kelvin
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
~ Elizabeth Moon
The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
~ Hafez
Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.
~ Robert Heilbroner
Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.
~ Ernst Gombrich
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
~ Hannah More
For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
~ Laura Cereta