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Quotes About Learning

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
~ Andre Gide
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
~ Alexander Pope
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
~ John Adams
You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.
~ Karl Pilkington
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
~ Warren G. Bennis
There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.
~ Vinton Cerf
The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
Knowledge is the key to making a difference.
~ Sylvia Earle
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
~ Clay Shirky
He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom
~ Robert S. Jepson, Jr.
Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.
~ Joel Achenbach
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
~ Thomas Browne
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
~ Ben Shahn
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
~ Michael Gove
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
~ La Monte Young
The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
~ John Ruskin
There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poems come from incomplete knowledge.
~ Diane Wakoski
Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.
~ Tim Lebbon
The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
~ Oliver Goldsmith