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Quotes About Knowledge

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
~ Benjamin Franklin
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
~ Mencius
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.
~ Roger Lewin
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
~ Mark Twain
Without questions, there is no learning.
~ W. Edwards Deming
He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
~ Plato
Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.
~ Norman Cousins
The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
~ Wanda Landowska
People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.
~ Mario Teguh
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.
~ Michael J. Gelb
Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.
~ Grace Paley
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
~ Thomas More
You never stop learning. You learn something new every day.
~ Robinson Cano
I hate learning through experience. Just once I'd like to learn something because someone was nice enough to tell me in advance.
~ Rita Rudner
The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.
~ John Dewey
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.
~ Confucius
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
~ Mark Twain
Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read.
~ Pam Allyn
To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.
~ Don Tapscott