Quotes about Knowledge
When learning stops, decay sets in.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
— William Hazlitt
Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue.
— Mark Batterson
The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
— George Bernard Shaw
A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
— St. Augustine
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
— Elie Wiesel
On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
— Will Rogers
I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
— Samuel Johnson
All I have learned, I learned from books.
— Abraham Lincoln
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
— William Hazlitt
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.
— Samuel Johnson
Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.
— St. Augustine