Quotes About Learning

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

no knowledge obtained without risk

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.