Quotes About Learning

He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this -- that he knows nothing yet.

How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing.

Firelit rooms lined with books - these are the places in which important things happen.

I do bad at school because sometimes I think when I should be learning.

There was, she was learning, strength hidden at the center of weakness, ground at the bottom of the deepest pit.

I've flung a fly myself, he continues. I'm still learning it. I suppose we're all still learning. You learn and learn and then you die and you haven't learned half of it.

A destroyer is towed in from the horizon. A throbbing of the tug's engines, behind it the quiet gray behemoth rolls a giant wake and Dorotea sees the numbers painted on the sides and ship-sinking cannons that look so calm and clean. Its hull is big as an apartment building; she wonders how she could ever believe her father could learn about something so big. How anyone could learn about something so big.

But he is learning. It is as if he is learning all over again how to put the world into words. A tree is an open hand shaken twice by your right ear; whale is three fingers dipped through a sea made by the opposite forearm. The sky is two hands touched above the head, then swept apart, as though a rift has formed in the clouds and you are swimming through them, into heaven.

But when she imagined college she thought of her dreary days in the schoolhouse in Lushoto, the heat of classrooms, the impatience of mathematics, bland two-dimensional maps pinned to walls. Green for land, blue for water, stars for capital cities. Schoolmasters obsessed with naming things that had existed unnamed for a million years.

A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

You're not defined by your past experiences. You're prepared by them.

For in those days I had no idea that many of the greatest books are like a forest, and that the best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

We do not know what or how to teach children, because we do not know what a child is, and we do not know what a child is, because we do not know what man is -- and Him from whom and for whom man is.

not (as most do) to learn my trade in the Forum, but so far as possible to enter the Forum already trained.

As Cicero drily put it: "We must apply to our fellow-countrymen for virtue, but for our culture to the Greeks.

we have learned from them the beginnings of life and have gained the power not only to live happily but also to die with a better hope.

For as far as I can cast my mind back into times gone by, as far as I can recollect the earliest years of my boyhood, the picture of the past that takes shape reveals that it was [Archias] who first inspired my determination to embark on these studies, and who started me on their methodical pursuit.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool, the mistake.

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

This was a woman who didn't just go to bed with a book. She went to bed with a library.