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Quotes About Learning

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
~ Blaise Pascal
Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.
~ Thomas Cooper
All our knowledge begins with the senses...
~ Immanuel Kant
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.
~ E. F. Schumacher
It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.
~ Narendra Modi
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!
~ Robert Muller
Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.
~ Caroline Pratt
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.
~ Jared Spool
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
~ George Santayana
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
~ William Gilbert
Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on
~ Carlos Castaneda
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
~ William Ellery Channing
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
~ Hosea Ballou
It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.
~ Jacques Pepin
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
~ Tom Stoppard
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
~ Samuel Johnson
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
~ Margaret Mead
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
~ Garrett Hardin
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
~ Louis L'Amour
Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.
~ John A. Van de Walle
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
~ Pope John Paul II
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
~ Samuel Johnson