Quotes About Learning

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.