The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so knowledge remains better than ignorance.

The learning and knowledge that we have is at the most but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning accompanied with ill bringing-up are far more fatal.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Learning how to be still to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling much curious learning in the literature of the subject and above all an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.