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Quotes About Knowledge

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
~ Umberto Eco
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
~ Bruce Lee
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
~ Carl Rogers
The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.
~ William Thurston
Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?
~ David Bohm
EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
~ Bulleh Shah
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
~ Noam Chomsky
Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.
~ Peter Senge
You cannot open a book without learning something.
~ Confucius
Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
~ Bruce Lee
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
~ Isaac Asimov
The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.
~ Mencius
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Experience comes from bad judgment.
~ Mark Twain
There is no learning without remembering.
~ Socrates
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.
~ Georg Simmel
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.
~ Giuseppe Verdi
The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.
~ Robert Monroe
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
~ Bill Vaughan
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
~ J.K. Rowling
Health is worth more than learning.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.
~ Nick Saban
the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.
~ Richard DuFour
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
~ Anton Chekhov