Quotes About Learning

There is no academic education imparted through university or college or school that could make a fool a wise until that student learns to be truly nice to others in own life, but there are many institutions which can make easily an intelligent a stupid guy.

There is no university,college,institute, academy or school, which could impart an education that can make a fool a wise until that pupil be truly nice.

True education is not that which a person gets from the institution but from the experience gained only from the environment.

I learned everything from Bruce Lee. – Jackie Chan

Perhaps he would relive it all only when he sent his son here to study, to learn in their superb systems, to grow and be hurt and yet feel so alive in their strange world, amidst their alien and rude ways that somehow managed to be affectionate. But it would be long time from now

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I'm driven to reach for it.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

He knew almost as much as if he had read much.

Actually, we were at the other extreme from giants: we had become dwarfs! And I mean this quite literally. For, often, the right way to philosophize is to make yourself artificially stupid! Only by being "stupid" can you break the barrier of the seemingly obvious.

Never utter these words 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know know to understand understand to judge.

We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [ The Premise Of Meaning , American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

If we drink from the fountain of wisdom, We thirst for its waters e'ermore.

Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

But there's always a story behind the story. That's how the story never ends: Someone is always telling it, someone is always listening. A story is told about something someone else did once so that we won't make that same mistake now.