Quotes About Learning

For your Bildung you should choose the most difficult and splendid problem, but as subject for a dissertation choose no more than a very limited and remote corner.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

That the other suffers must be learned; and it can never be learned completely.

This however is my teaching: he who wishes one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing:- one does not fly into flying!

Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul?

perempuan belajar membenci dengan cara yang sama saat mereka--belajar melupakan cara memperdaya

Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership.   [408]

the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.

Man träumt gar nicht, oder interessant -- Man muss lernen, ebeson zu wachen: -- gar nicht, oder interessant

From the practice of wise men.—To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed. 301

And if you cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and precursors of such saints.

To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write. (VII

know how to employ the diversity of perspectives and emotional interpretations for the advancement of knowledge.

With the new morning, however, there came unto me a new truth: then did I learn to say: Of what account to me are market-place and populace and populace-noise and long populace- ears!

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.

his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.

at the age of thirty, when it comes to high culture, one is a beginner, a child.—

Além todo o discurso é vão! A melhor sabedoria é esquecer e passar: foi isto que aprendeste agora.

Learning another cuisine is like learning a language. In the beginning, you know nothing about its most basic rules of grammar. You experience it as a flood of words, or dishes, without system or structure.

Six days a week at the cooking school were not enough for me. In my free time I sought out restaurants and snack shops I hadn't visited before, and begged them to let me study in their kitchens.

university textbooks I'd encountered in my few weeks of class were deathly dull and totally impractical. Instead of introducing us to useful words like 'stir-fry' and 'braise', 'bamboo shoot' and 'quail', they had required us to learn by rote long lists of largely irrelevant Chinese characters:

Science is not wisdom.