Quotes About Learning

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

Knowledge must come through action.

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

With knowledge grows doubt.

He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.