Quotes About Learning

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Knowledge always liberates.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

A little knowledge can go a long way.