Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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.

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.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

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.

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.