Quotes About Knowledge

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

Fun is just another word for learning.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.