Quotes About Learning

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.