Quotes About Learning

Life is short and the number of books is appalling.

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.

Letting the task be master is a hard task for men, hardest of all for the angel's children, however distantly descended. But it could be learned: learned is the only way it could be learned, for I am a man. Far away and long ago the angels struggled in great anguish with the world, struggled unceasingly; but I would learn, yes, in the long engine summer of the world I would learn to live with it, I would.

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I do not recommend ignorance and I am not saying that there is no truth, but I am arguing that the best way to think about truth is to call it the best interpretation that anybody has come up with yet while conceding that no one knows what is coming next. There are lots of competing truths battling with one another for their place in the sun, and the truth is that we have to learn to cope with the conflict. The skies do not open up and drop The Truth into our laps.

Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" ~ John D. Rockefeller

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

Keep this in mind, though: sooner or later, you really must study with a teacher, for the practice is long and not easy, and there are many opportunities to become discouraged or confused along the way.

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

All life is a preparation for love.

One of the unfortunate facts about being interested in nearly everything is that the depth of your knowledge is bound to remain inversely proportional to its range; the more you know en masse, the less you tend to know about a particular, narrow topic.

It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his success.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

An educated person is the person who has the power to go on and get more education.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.