Quotes About Knowledge

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

I am still learning. (at age 87)

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

The thing that I've most enjoyed is what I'm learning.

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

I am always learning, always discovering.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

By ignorance the truth is known.