Arnold Bennett Quotes

If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

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.

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

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned

It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.

I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.