1,243 Learning Quotes

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

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

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.

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

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

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

I loved doing problems in school.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

I always like to know what I'm doing, but there are times when nobody will tell me.

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.

In the places I go there are things that I see That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!

So, on beyond Z! It's high time you were shown That you really don't know All there is to be known.

The more that you read, The more things you will know. The more that you learn, The more places you'll go.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

Mais, la souris est en dessous la table, le chat est sur la chaise et le singe est : est : le singe est disparu!

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

AT ABOUT THIS POINT the weak-hearted reader usually sits down in the road, removes his shoes and weeps that he 'is a bad linguist' or that he or she can't possibly learn all those languages. One has to divide the readers who want to be experts from those who do not, and divide, as it were, those who want to see the world from those who merely want to know WHAT PART OF IT THEY LIVE IN.

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

My curiosity sister of larks.

Le desir de paraitre habile empeche souvent de le devenir.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

I never met a man so unknowledgeable, I could not learn something from him.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.

I look at the world and I notice it's turning. While my guitar gently weeps. With every mistake we must surely be learning, Still my guitar gently weeps.

But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: 'Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion - or you shall learn nothing.'

I've heard that before. I take it as a great compliment. I love Heath. He taught me everything I know.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. - I think that Pilgrim's Progress is the best sermon which has been preached from this text; almost all other sermons that I have heard, or heard of, have been but poor imitations of this. - It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it.

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.

It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it - this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education. If experience consists of impressions, it may be said that impressions are experience, just as (have we not seen it?) they are the very air we breathe. Therefore, if I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience, and experience only,' I should feel that this was a rather tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Observation-activity of both eyes and ears.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. (B 1)

Thus all human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. (B 730)

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Jack: Gee, I never thought of that.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

I feel I'm happily inspired now on Classical soil: The Past and Present speak louder, more charmingly. Here, as advised, I leaf through the works of the Ancients With busy hands, and, each day, with fresh delight. But at night Love keeps me busy another way: I become half a scholar but twice as contented. And am I not learning, studying the shape Of her lovely breasts: her hips guiding my hand?

Doubt grows with knowledge.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

Whence thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, he walks in the midst of wonders.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.