Learning Knowledge Quotes

I told you, knowledge is our Holy Grail, and I daresay the wisdom possessed by the vampire would boggle your imagination. You see, we don't have political allegiances to worry about, or religion, or differing mores. We all work together for one purpose: to further our achievements and our learning. ~ Michael Talbot

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ~ Bertrand Russell

I was more than my limitations; I was learning ~ Robin S. Sharma

The basic economic resource - the means of production -
is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.
It is and will be knowledge. ~ Peter Drucker

It's not information overload. It's filter failure. ~ Clay Shirky

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. ~ Nadia Boulanger

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you. ~ Bathsua Makin

The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, "acquirable knowledge," that is, "learnable knowledge," that is, "knowledge acquirable by learning." ~ Salomon Bochner

There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly. ~ David Ausubel

The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action. ~ Richard Pascale

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

What we do not understand we do not possess. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. ~ W. Edwards Deming

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less. ~ Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk) ~ Darren Shan

The only way that someone can be of help to you is by challenging your ideas. ~ Anthony De Mello

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary. ~ Joseph O'Connor

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in. ~ Peter Block

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations. ~ David Weinberger

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response. ~ Richard Pascale

EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING ~ Bulleh Shah

Research is creating new knowledge. ~ Neil Armstrong

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life! ~ Steve Jobs

Love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure. ~ Emilie Du Chatelet

We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere. ~ Faith Baldwin

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~ Aristotle.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ~ Lao-Tzu

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. ~ R.D. Laing

We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday. ~ Peter Block

That's what does it
that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning. ~ Steven Brust

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson. ~ Bruce Catton

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. ~ Marvin Minsky

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it. ~ Erich Fromm

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? ~ David Bohm

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. ~ Frederick Winslow Taylor

Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change. ~ Richard Pascale

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. ~ Thomas A Kempis

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back & beginning all over again. ~ Andre Gide

Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience ~ David A. Kolb

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. ~ Samuel Johnson

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique. ~ Peter Senge

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources". ~ Henry Mintzberg

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need. ~ Nathaniel Branden

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God. ~ John Calvin

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person. ~ Therese Of Lisieux

Blinded allegiance disallows knowledge of choosing and authenticity. ~ S.A. Borders-Shoemaker

Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use - that is our good use - of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right? ~ Socrates

Harry," she said, her voice a little thick with the whisky. "You found the way, didn't you?" What's so wonderful about it? I thought. Dogs do. ~ Charles Williams

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ~ Pierre Charron

Did you ever face Death and let it stare back at you right in the Eyes? ~ Luis Marques

My father will hunt you for taking his power if he finds out," he said into the frigid dark. "And kill you for learning how to wield it." "He can get in line," was all I said. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive. ~ Zander Sherman

Strax gave a snort of amusement. 'It is surely a very simple choice. One option is for a quiet life with honest work amongst other humans paying a living wage and with prospects of promotion within a distinguished household. The other... ' He drew himself up to his full height and looked up at them, 'is the prospect of constant danger, fear and risk. No chance of ever seeing your friends again, or making new ones. The knowledge that death waits around the next corner and you are unlikely to see the end of the next week without at the very least a serious injury. A glorious alternative. ~ Justin Richards

You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort. ~ Paulo Coelho

She was pleased her husband still thought her attractive, despite her beached-whale state, but was finding it increasingly awkward to accommodate him. The spirit was willing but the flesh was swollen. Still, she enjoyed the compliment and understood that there was no real demand behind the caresses. The earl knew her well enough to realize she valued his desire almost as much as his love. After a lifetime of feeling ugly and unworthy, Alexia was now tolerably assured that Conall genuinely did want her, even if they could do nothing about it at present. She also understood that he was expressing his conjugal interest partly out of knowledge of her own need for such assurances. A werewolf and a buffoon, her husband, but wonderfully caring once he'd blundered into the way of it. ~ Gail Carriger

The brain is good at learning from bad experiences, but bad at learning from good ones. ~ Rick Hanson

There is an extent of riches, as well as an extreme of poverty, which, by harrowing the circles of a man's acquaintance, lessens his opportunities of general knowledge. ~ Howard Zinn

The scientists Heartland works with demanded we host a ninth conference this year to foster a much-needed frank, honest, and open discussion of the current state of climate science and we just couldn't refuse. The public, the press, and the scientific community will all benefit from learning about the latest research and observational data that indicate climate science is anything but 'settled. ~ Joseph L. Bast

What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that. ~ Debasish Mridha

Everything is a learning experience. ~ Angus T. Jones

Sometimes I felt that growing up and being a girl was about learning to be afraid. Not paranoid, exactly, but always alert and aware, like checking out the exits in the movie theatre or the fire escape in a hotel. You came to know, in a way you hadn't as a kid, that the body you inhabited was vulnerable, imperfectly fortified. On TV, in the papers, in books and movies, it isn't ever men being raped or kidnapped or bludgeoned or dismembered or burned with acid. But in stories and crime shows and TV series and movies and in life too, it's going on all the time, all around you. So you learn, in your mind, that your body needs to be protected. It's both precious and totally dispensable, depending on whom you encounter. ~ Claire Messud

Keep behind me, Metatron - wait here - Asriel is suspicious - let me lull him first. When he's off guard, I'll call you. But come as a shadow, in this small form, so he doesn't see you - otherwise, he'll just let the child's daemon fly away. The Regent was a being whose profound intellect had had thousands of years to deepen and strengthen itself, and whose knowledge extended over a million universes. Nevertheless, at that moment he was blinded by his twin obsessions: to destroy Lyra and to possess her mother. He nodded and stayed where he was, while the woman and the monkey moved forward as quietly as they could. ~ Philip Pullman

In some subsequent episodes, certain individuals have certain knowledge of certain events that they wouldn't have, if they didn't have access to the future. ~ Andrew Kreisberg

Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing. ~ Fidel Castro

Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner. ~ Christopher Hitchens

We refuse to believe that which we don't understand. ~ Napoleon Hill

Be the light in darkness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Puck laughs, warm and pealing. 'Your concern is touching, but deeply unnecessary. Did Ariel not tell you, child? I'm a trickster, and though my enemies try as they might, it's tricky to trick a trickster with even the trickiest trickeries. And in any case, should anyone try to trick me'
his smile turns vulpine, sharper even than his teeth
'they must do so in the knowledge that I'll trick back. ~ Foz Meadows

Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger. ~ Gloria Allred

Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the water. It applies to the pursuit of the arts as well as to the pursuit of knowledge. ~ Henry Miller

Destinations are end points. Journeys are learnings, paths of possibilities, blossoming... fresh beginnings. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Everything is true for the person who believes it to be true. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Ibn Mas'ud said, "When 'Umar died nine-tenth of all knowledge vanished with him." The people were shocked and said, "How can this be when among us now are still many of the great companions?" Ibn Mas'ud replied,"I am not speaking of the knowledge of fiqh and the science of judgements, I'm speaking about the knowledge of Allah." This struggle of isolation, hunger, sleeplessness, weeping, fear and endless service to men was for this end. The journey is only for knowledge of Allah and the whole of it lies in detachment from everything that passes away. First from what is displeasing to Allah, then from one's self-illusion and desires, and then from all men and all otherness until there is only isolation and extreme nearness to Allah. ~ Khalid Muhammad Khalid

Only God has the Absolute Truth. He has broken it into pieces and distributed it among those yearning for it, so we may always need one another. ~ Naide P Obiang

THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL – AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF CONTROL, AND GOODNESS, AND COURAGE, AND LIBERALITY, AND TRUTH…"

SOCRATES' LAST WORDS IN PLATO'S PHAEDO ~ Dean Chavooshian

There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love. ~ Carlos Salinas

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does. ~ Geoff Mulgan

What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations, many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge, ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be, as a group, carriers of and teachers of the eternal verities and the higher life. The goal of humanistic studies was defined as the perception and knowledge of the good, the beautiful, and the true. Such studies were expected to refine the discrimination between what is excellent and what is not (excellence generally being understood to be the true, the good, and the beautiful). They were supposed to inspire the student to the better life, to the higher life, to goodness and virtue. What was truly valuable, Matthew Arnold said, was 'the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world.' [...] No, it is quite clear from our experience of the last fifty years or so that the pre-1914 certainties of the humanists, of the artists, of the dramatists and poets, of the philosophers, of the critics, and of those who are generally inner-directed have given way to a chaos of relativism. No one of these people now knows how and what to choose, nor does he know how to defend and validate his choice. ~ Abraham H. Maslow

Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life. ~ George W. Bush

Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire ~ Abdu'l- Baha

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ~ Abigail Adams

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. ~ Rebecca West

Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true. ~ Boyd K. Packer

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Almost all men are infected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge, ~ Tony Reinke

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ. ~ James MacDonald

I devised a sort of strategy for any sort of discussion that was over my head: I became the moderator. If you're the group's John McLaughlin, you can fake being informed while still being involved by deploying a few pointed but vague questions. If a person is holding forth and another is twitching to interrupt, jump in and ask her why she disagrees. Ask follow-up questions. Nod vigorously while saying things like 'in what sense?' or 'How, specifically?' That way, you smoothly take control of the conversation without actually contributing anything even remotely worthwhile or informative. ~ Jancee Dunn

Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature. ~ Will Tuttle

Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side. ~ Gay Mitchell