“Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.”
“Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.”
“Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding”
“To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.”
“What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?”
“It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.”