Knowledge And Learning Quotes - Page 3

• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Spring, Learning

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "What Is Intelligence?" by Max Miller, bigthink.com.

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mystery, Pessimism, Inexplicable

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 1, 2007.

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• As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Men, Apples, Adam

  Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.84, Broadway Books

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• EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING

  Bulleh Shah

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• The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

  Starhawk

  Wise, Political, Witch

  "The Burning Times". 1990.

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• The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.

  Carl L. Becker

  Education, Hurt, Government

  Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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