Expanding Knowledge Quotes

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Become as knowledgeable as possible.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.

It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.