100+ Eye-Opening Quotes About Knowledge & Learning

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.