Quotes about Learning
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
— Stephen Hawking
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
— St. Jerome
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.
— Joe Biden
Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
— CS Lewis
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
— Albert Einstein
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change
— Stephen Hawking
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.
— Robert Frost
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
— Hippocrates
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
— Stephen Hawking