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Quotes About Learning

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.
~ John Seely Brown
What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.
~ Oliver Smithies
Knowledge is our ultimate good.
~ Socrates
Knowledge is never too dear.
~ Francis Walsingham
It's not just the adage 'write what you know,' it's about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you've collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don't know.
~ Sarah Kay
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.
~ Austin O'Malley
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
~ George Horace Lorimer
I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.
~ Vannoccio Biringuccio
If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
~ Vance Havner
Knowledge is the only elegance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.
~ Richard Pascale
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
~ Sydney J. Harris
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
~ Bayard Taylor
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
~ William Glasser
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
~ T. S. Eliot
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
~ Leland Stanford
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
~ Democritus
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
~ Franz Grillparzer