Quotes About Knowledge

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.