Top 100 Learning Knowledge Quotes
#1. We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.
Faith Baldwin
#2. The ultimate aim of learning knowledge is to gain wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
#4. I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge ...
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#5. The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#6. Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.
Raheel Farooq
#7. The most intimate community of all knowledge - the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.
Novalis
#9. Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.
Ellen Langer
#10. Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.
Richard Pascale
#11. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
#12. William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.
Jill Ker Conway
#13. Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain ... your thoughts ... your ideas ... engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.
Wes Adamson
#14. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#16. You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
#17. Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
Emile Durkheim
#18. Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!
Alan Rufus
#19. After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.
Norman Doidge
#20. The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
Elie Wiesel
#21. Learning is knowledge and knowledge is freedom and power. He knew that. He had forgotten that, somehow. But he knew it once more.
Oliver Bowden
#22. The basic economic resource - the means of production -
is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.
It is and will be knowledge.
Peter Drucker
#23. I don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I'm learning it by trial and error, which is something that's slow going.
Evangeline Lilly
#24. The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#27. 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.
Richard Pascale
#28. Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#30. If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.
Ellen J. Barrier
#31. Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
#32. Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce
#34. That's what does it
that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.
Steven Brust
#35. The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all ... all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.
Socrates
#36. Sharing will enrich everyone with more knowledge.
Ana Monnar
#37. To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.
Don Tapscott
#38. The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, "acquirable knowledge," that is, "learnable knowledge," that is, "knowledge acquirable by learning."
Salomon Bochner
#39. My father ... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds ...
Andre-Marie Ampere
#41. Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion
a form of knowledge without the power of it.
Joseph Addison
#42. All learning is useful, all the sciences are curious, all the arts are beautiful; but the most useful, most curious and most beautiful is perfect knowledge and perfect government of oneself.
Frances Wright
#43. Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.
Tim Fargo
#44. Studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.
Paulo Freire
#45. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard
#46. Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
Abdul Kalam
#47. It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed
Idries Shah
#48. History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.
Julian Jaynes
#49. You have a lot to explore beyond this cottage if you want to know everything about the world. Explore until your heart is full, Belle. And then explore some more.
Random House Disney
#50. Think of at least three ways to generate income from your knowledge, passion and expertise. Yes, there may be a learning curve until you are actually doing it, but you're going to love the extra money flowing in.
Meera Lester
#52. Knowledge is learning how to do something new, wisdom is being able to put your knowledge into use.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#53. We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.
Anthony Marais
#54. Action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
Idries Shah
#55. Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#56. Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
Ellis Peters
#57. What one learns in a classroom is just a very small part of learning process . The real learning starts when one crosses borders and travels miles for the real knowledge.
Vivek Sahni
#58. ...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn't a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn't a goal; it's a road.
Garon Whited
#59. If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
Maria Montessori
#60. Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything
Stewart Stafford
#62. Three hundred years from now children will be learning about a lost art that has the ability to:
Enrich minds,
Increase intelligence,
Reduce stress
Increase knowledge
Increase concentration
IT'S CALLED READING
Steven Aitchison
#63. HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.
Idries Shah
#64. Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
Thomas More
#65. Then why do you want to know?"
"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Umberto Eco
#66. Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#67. Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
Khalil Gibran
#69. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
#70. EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING
Bulleh Shah
#71. Never ... stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.
Judith Rodin
#72. Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure of aptitude, but actually learning it may be effortless, automatic, and require very little of what we normally think of as intelligence.
Greg Carlson
#73. An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
Henry Mintzberg
#74. My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date ... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me ... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#76. The ideal of an "all-round" education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
#77. The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?
Confucius
#79. My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.
Isabella Rossellini
#80. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
George William Curtis
#81. It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of religious or political belief, and it is a poor sort of man who will permit others to dictate what he may or may not learn.
Louis L'Amour
#82. Science is learning to control everything but man.
Billy Graham
#83. Because we are imperfect souls, our knowledge is imperfect. The history of learning is an adventure in overcoming our errors. There is no sin in being wrong. The sin is in our unwillingness to examine our own beliefs, and in believing that our authorities cannot be wrong.
Neil Postman
#84. Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
Agnes Repplier
#85. There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Francis Bacon
#86. 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
#87. I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.
Truth Devour
#88. Buying a book is not enough ... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
#90. A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.
Soren Kierkegaard
#91. The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.
H.L. Mencken
#92. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.
Thomas Huxley
#94. When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
Jaak Panksepp
#95. What is learning: accumulating knowledge? Or transforming our lives?
Paulo Coelho
#96. That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names.
Thomas Paine
#97. There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do ... there are things I watch my hand do that are almost thoughtless. I can remember the moment of learning them. It is knowledge you have in the hand.
Charles Simonds
#98. We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.
Evan Osnos
#99. Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.
Navonne Johns
#100. Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research.
Donald Clark
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