Quotes About Learning

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

Knowledge is almost annoying.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.