Learning keeps the heart awake and humble. True knowing begins with curiosity, patience, and a little awe. As Socrates reminds us: “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”
“I don't believe. I know.” ~ Carl Jung
“Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.” ~ Luther Standing Bear
“From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.” ~ Ray Bradbury
“Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.” ~ Al Bernstein, Funny Cryptograms
“Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.” ~ Robert Heinlein
“All difficulties are easy when they are known.” ~ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.” ~ Philip Sidney, Quotable Intellectual
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” ~ Samuel Johnson
“The more I know the less tortured I am.” ~ Alanis Morissette
“Knowledge — that is, education in its true sense — is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I'm not young enough to know everything.” ~ J. M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
“We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.” ~ George Patton
“Every animal knows more than you do.” ~ Native American Proverb, Animal Spirit