Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I've always been kind of an information sponge.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.