Barack Obama Quotes

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

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

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.

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.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

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

Each crisis is different, has its own specificities, and we need to look at it critically; look at each one in its own terms.

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

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.

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

Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

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.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

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

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

The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

The way is in training.

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.