Quotes about Learning
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.
— Peter Drucker
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
— Hannah More
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
— Khalil Gibran
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
— Albert Camus
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
— Margaret Mead
Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.
— Pope John Paul II
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
— John Calvin
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
— Vance Havner
Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.
— Edmund Burke
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson