Quotes About Learning

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

Your educators can only be your liberators.

Ultimately no one can hear in things?books included?more than he already knows. If you have no access to something from experience, you will have no ear for it.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.

Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another: you have learned that - now!

It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!

If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.

Dreams. ? We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way ? not at all or in an interesting manner.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.

Man vergibt seinem Lehrer schlecht, wenn man immer nur der Schüler bleibt. (One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.)

Benditos sean los olvidadizos pues superan, incluso, sus propios errores

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.