„The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!“

„Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.“

—  Alexandre Dumas, kniha Hrabě Monte-Christo

Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo

„There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.“

—  Rachel Caine American writer 1962

Zdroj: Ink and Bone

„The duty and the right to express one's opinion freely may be meaningless—and on occasion even injurious to the best interests of the society—if those opinions are not based on sound thought, which, in its turn, presupposes the possession of sound knowledge.“

—  Muhammad Asad, kniha The Principles of State and Government in Islam

Zdroj: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 5: The Citizens And The Government, p 86

„Complete knowledge of every theoretical and instrumental detail can only be obtained by those who will devote… a large portion of their lives; but sound knowledge of the principles… can be obtained by the reasonable efforts of persons possessing common opportunities for general knowledge.“

—  George Biddell Airy English mathematician and astronomer 1801 - 1892

Introduction
Popular Astronomy: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich (1868)

„Learn knowledge and science from him who teaches it, even if he doesn't practice what he preaches.“

—  Muhammad al-Baqir fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams 677 - 733

Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 299

„Scientific knowledge, even in the most modest persons, has mingled with it a something which partakes of insolence. Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind.“

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes Poet, essayist, physician 1809 - 1894

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

„Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.“

—  Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Pearls of Wisdom

„The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941

The Scouter http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/outlook.html (January, 1912)

„Never stop learning. The thirst to gain more knowledge should never come to an end.“

—  C. N. R. Rao Indian chemist 1934

„Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.“

—  Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947

„Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that; s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.“

—  Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951

Zdroj: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

„Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge… Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? …there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.“

—  Maimónides, kniha The Guide for the Perplexed

Zdroj: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.20

„Man is not, as the croaking philosophers say, merely a rational animal, capable of understanding and knowledge; for, according to them, even irrational creatures appear possessed of understanding and knowledge. But man alone is the image and likeness of God ; and I mean by man, not one who performs actions similar to those of animals, but one who has advanced far beyond mere humanity — to God Himself. This question we have discussed more minutely in the treatise concerning animals. But the principal point to be spoken of now is, what is intended by the image and likeness of God.“

—  Tatian Syrian writer 120 - 180

Ante-Nicene Christian library: v. 3 p. 20
Address to the Greeks

„In a certain sense all knowledge is inductive. We can only learn the laws and relations of things in nature by observing those things. But the knowledge gained from the senses is knowledge only of particular facts, and we require some process of reasoning by which we may collect out of the facts the laws obeyed by them. Experience gives us the materials of knowledge: induction digests those materials, and yields us general knowledge. When we possess such knowledge, in the form of general propositions and natural laws, we can usefully apply the reverse process of deduction to ascertain the exact information required at any moment. In its ultimate foundation, then, all knowledge is inductive—in the sense that it is derived by a certain inductive reasoning from the facts of experience.“

—  William Stanley Jevons English economist and logician 1835 - 1882

Zdroj: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method (1874) Vol. 1, p. 14

„This is a writer’s lesson:
To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.“

—  John Irving, kniha Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Zdroj: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

„Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the languages, all knowledge, all memory.“

—  Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959

Silence Is the Universal Library http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21396/Silence_Is_the_Universal_Library_
From the poems written in English

„The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.“

—  Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman philosopher and statesman -106 - -43 př. n. l.

„Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.“

—  Aristotle, kniha Posterior Analytics

I. 13, 78a.22
Posterior Analytics

„Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.“

—  Joseph Roux French poet 1834 - 1905

Part 1, LXXI
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)