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Quotes About Knowledge

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.
~ Jack Welch
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
~ Epictetus
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
~ Thomas Fuller
I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.
~ Terence Lewis
As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.
~ Arthur Keith
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Men learn while they teach.
~ Seneca
The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.
~ Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.
~ John Desmond Bernal
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
~ John Desmond Bernal
I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
~ A. J. Jacobs
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
~ Toni Morrison
When learning stops, decay sets in.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
~ William Hazlitt
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.
~ Dominic Monaghan
Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue
~ Mark Batterson
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
~ William Shenstone
Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
~ T. H. White
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
~ John Berger
I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
~ Greg Egan