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Quotes About Growth

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.
~ Neil Gaiman
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
~ Herman Melville
At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
~ Aberjhani
If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Knowledge keeps no better than fish.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.
~ Nelly
A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.
~ John Stuart Mill
Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.
~ Kató Lomb
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
~ Jean Paul
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I know enough now to know I know nothing.
~ Amy Poehler
I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
~ Nhat Hanh
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
~ William Hazlitt
Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.
~ Paul Johnson
Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.
~ Randall Dale Adams
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.
~ W. W. Sawyer
Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.
~ Janine Benyus
no knowledge obtained without risk
~ Stephen King
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.
~ Jack Kuehler
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.
~ Grenville Kleiser
I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.
~ Britt Robertson