Quotes About Learning

Man is incurably curious.

Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

I study philosophy after my dinner, but the dinner is not the cause o my studying philosophy.

By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.

Like train announcers, they know all the stations, but never travel. Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

We learn to speak through listening, and we grow in love of God through listening.

There were only two classes of people who heard the cry Christmas night: shepherds and wise men. Shepherds: those who know they know nothing. Wise men: those who know they do not know everything. Only the very simple and very learned discovered God - never the man with one book.

Blessed finally are the poor in spirit intellectually. Blessed are the humble, and the teachable who like the Shepherds know they know nothing, or like the Wise Men who know they do not know everything.

The Logos or Word of God taking a child on His lap will forever remain the mission of education- to share it as wealth must be shared.

If we allow our mind to become fallow and do not pour truth into it by study, not only does ignorance possess it, but we actually reach a point where we can enjoy nothing but picture magazines and cheap novels.

The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.

Only two classes of people found the Babe: the shepherds and the Wise Men; the simple and the learned; those who knew that they knew nothing, and those who knew that they did not know everything. He is never seen by the man of one book; never by the man who thinks he knows. Not even God can tell the proud anything! Only the humble can find God!

Après qu'on a travaillé, le plus utile des délassements est une lecture qui vous instruit. L'âge de s'instruire n'est jamais passé

I sat staring at the carpet for the longest time, trying to put everything I'd learned into some sort of meaningful order, but it was like reading late at night, where three minutes in you realize you've read the same paragraph six times and still don't have any idea what it's about.

Hoy, es un lujo leer a Sócrates, no por el costo de los libros, sino del tiempo escaso.

Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady to remove the book from off the top of her head and open it for a change. Just like I taught you.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.

You were mine to protect and take care of, Jilly-girl. And the better I learned you, the deeper you burrowed into my soul. Every time I took a bit more control, the higher you flew in my arms. You were an addiction and a mystery…you fed my soul and drove me over the edge.

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Toda verdad es fácil de comprender una vez que ha sido descubierta, el problema es descubrirla

Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!

Die Neugier steht immer an erster Stelle eines Problems, das gelöst werden will.