19 Albert Einstein Quotes on Learning

Albert Einstein quotes on learning

5. Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up.

39. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

54. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

80. Never memorize what you can look up in books.

173. Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

176. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

177. As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

181. Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

202. If I knew what I was doing, it wouldn't be called research.

207. In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

211. It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom

213. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

228. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

242. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

248. The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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260. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

270. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

272. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

281. Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

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