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I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of the learned.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.

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Thomas Traherne

There was never a tutor that did professly teach Felicity, though that be the mistress of all other sciences. Nor did any of us study these things but as aliena, which we ought to have studied as our enjoyments. We studied to inform our knowledge, but knew not for what end we so studied. And for lack of aiming at a certain end we erred in the manner. Howbeit there we received all those seeds of knowledge that were afterwards improved; and our souls were awakened to a discerning of their faculties, and exercise of their powers.

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Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

knowledge, learning

Miyamoto Musashi

From one thing, know ten thousand things.

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Kendall F. Person

I know what I know and what I don’t know… I will find out.

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…knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That’s why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

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George Bernard Shaw

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

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Thomas S. Monson

We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.

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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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Small minds have always lashed out at what they don’t understand.

knowledge, learning

I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of the learned.

knowledge, learning