Quotes About Knowledge

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

This is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.