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Quotes About Knowledge

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches
~ Brigham Young
Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.
~ Terry Pratchett
Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.
~ Samuel Johnson
For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.
~ Erica Brown
One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
~ Fay Weldon
As you get older, you like to think you get better because you're learning more.
~ Elaine Cassidy
A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
~ Theodore Roethke
I learn every day, and I know that I will never stop learning.
~ Stacy Keibler
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
~ Gail Simmons
Learning isn't something you should only do solo.
~ Geoff Mulgan
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.
~ George Herbert
Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.
~ George Washington
I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.
~ Greg Saunier
If you're over age 50, the internet is something you're just learning about.
~ Harry Reid
He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.
~ Henry Clay Trumbull
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
~ William Hazlitt
They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.
~ George Herbert
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.
~ Henry Latham Doherty
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
~ William Ellery Channing
At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.
~ Hugh Nibley
Most people stop learning out of fear. They are afraid they cannot learn.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Much learning does not teach sense.
~ Heraclitus