Knowledge Learning Quotes - Page 3

• Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

  Bruce Lee

  Discovery, Imitation, Ends

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• The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

  Confucius

  Silent, Satiety

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.

  Noah Webster

  Heart, Community, Political

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• Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Eternal

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW - Musings of the Main Mormon / Gordon B. Hinckley, `president, prophet, seer and revelator' of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sits at the top of one of the world's fastest-growing religions". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 1997.

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• Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Knowledge, Movement, Moments

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.25, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

  Raymond Queneau

  Education, Ideas, Innovation

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Travel, Flower

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

  Carl Jung

  Truth, Business, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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• 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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• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Information Is Power

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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