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Quotes About Growth

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
~ attributed to Maya Aangelou
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
~ Ronald E. Osborn
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
~ Warren Buffett
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
~ Jean Piaget
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
~ Saadi
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
~ Malcolm X
The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.
~ Karl Popper
Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.
~ Fridtjof Nansen
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
~ Maria Montessori
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
~ Ernest Shackleton
The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious
~ Uta Hagen
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
~ Catherine the Great
Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.
~ Elif Safak
If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.
~ Marco Pierre White
Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.
~ Laozi
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
~ Stephen Hawking