Quotes About Knowledge

A great book can transmit years of wisdom in a few afternoons. Each sentence conveys meaning with precision and economy. A great book is a patient teacher and a deathless companion. A man with a good library has a thousand good mentors.

Learning is easier if you are honest about your own ignorance. People want to seem in the know. They try to signal that they are intelligent and informed. This is often counterproductive. Insecurity is the enemy of learning. A master knows how to be a beginner.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

All leaders are readers.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

You never stop learning.

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

Learning something new is fun.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

The goal of all learning is action, not knowledge.

You must learn to make the whole world your school.

I'm still learning.

Learn bits and pieces from everyone.

Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.

Teaching is more a way for the teacher to learn than for the student to learn.

Ignorance is thinking you're not a student anymore.

The medicine for anti-aging is lifelong learning.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.