Quotes About Knowledge

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.