Quotes About Learning

I have not so much thought my way through life as done things and found what it was and who I was after the doing.

It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.....

Il bambino impara semplicemente parlando e ascoltando.

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information.

But there is a fourth function of myth, and this is the one that I think everyone must try today to relate to—and that is the pedagogical function, of how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances. Myths can teach you that.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.

You will learn soon how not to be faint-hearted. A man has got to learn everything--and that's what so many of them youngsters don't understand.

Youth' is a feet of memory. It is a record of experience.

I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples.

Senti que estava me tornando cientificamente interessante.

There are things you find nothing about in books

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.

this month past. They had been engaged for six months (I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time—had no inherited experience to teach them as it were), and of course, as long as there was a

The demonstration must be against learning—science. But not every science will do. The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous blasphemy. Since bombs are your means of expression, it would be really telling if one could throw a bomb into pure mathematics. But that is impossible… What do you think of having a go at astronomy?

Well! well! It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

we are speaking about cognitive meanings, which cannot be transferred into students as blood is pumped into veins. Learning the meaning of a piece of knowledge requires dialog, exchange, sharing, and sometimes compromise.

The greatest scholar alive hasn't more than four thousand different words at his command, and he never has occasion to use half the number. In

A man may know so much of everything that he knows little of anything. This may sound paradoxical, but, nevertheless, experience proves its truth.

If you are not able to procure a library of the great masterpieces, get at least a few. Read them carefully, intelligently and with a view to enlarging your own literary horizon. Remember a good book cannot be read too often, one of a deteriorating influence should not be read at all. In literature, as in all things else, the good alone should prevail.

In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no matter how much we may read of the best authors, no matter how much we may associate with and imitate the best speakers

A man may know so much of everything that he knows little of anything.

constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub's A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor's The First World War, John Keegan's The First World War, and Malcolm Brown's The Western Front.