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Quotes About Learning

Knowledge exists to be imparted.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
~ Esther Meynell
Wisdom is the use of knowledge
~ Dan Millman
Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.
~ Vannevar Bush
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency." -R. Daneel Olivaw
~ Isaac Asimov
Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.
~ Nelly Mazloum
True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
~ Ameen Rihani
Knowledge was meant to be shared.
~ Louis L'Amour
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.
~ Richard Misrach
Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.
~ James Webb Young
Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.
~ Garth Nix
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
~ Saadi
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
~ Francis Bacon
The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.
~ Bill Gates
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
~ James Madison
He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.
~ Isaac Newton
All my knowledge comes from research.
~ Stan Sakai
I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga.
~ Dharma Mittra
You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
~ Plato
As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.
~ Hugh Nibley
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
~ Horace
As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.
~ Jurgen Klinsmann