Quotes About Learning

From Alexander[B] the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation

He would have claimed to be, at best, a diligent student and a very imperfect practitioner of a philosophy developed by others.

In reading and writing thou must learn first to follow instruction before thou canst give it. Much more is this true of life.

If any one can prove and bring home to me that a conception or act of mine is wrong, I will amend it, and be thankful. For I seek the truth, whereby no one was ever harmed. But he is harmed who persists in his own self-deception and ignorance.

How can we all grow?

Conventional wisdom tells us that we learn from our mistakes. The strengths movement says that all we learn from mistakes are the characteristics of mistakes.

it is important that children not be taught in such a way that they will later need to unlearn many things. We

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Ein Zimmer ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

For what I lack in experience I make up for in diligence.

Ein Raum ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele.

It is strong proof of men knowing things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.

Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit. (If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.)

Ut conclave sine libris ita corpus sine anima

Wenn du einen Garten und eine Bibliothek hast, wird Dir an nichts fehlen.