Culture Quote by Albert J. Nock

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world…

— Albert J. Nock

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

— Joseph Addison

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second…

— Alexandre Dumas

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

— Alexandre Dumas

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any…

— Albert J. Nock

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

— Samuel Johnson

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

— John Gray

“Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes…

— Alexandre Dumas

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

— Plato

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

— Donna Jo Napoli

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

— Derrick Jensen