Quotes About Learning

he grew old learning many a fresh lesson every day.

In omni disciplina informa est artis praeceptio sine summa assiduitate exercitationis.

it is by no means surprising that though we are first commended to Wisdom by the primary natural instincts, afterwards Wisdom itself becomes dearer to us than are the instincts from which we came to her.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

There is no fool like an educated fool...

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

the difference between stupid and ignorant was that ignorant could learn.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am

Experiences were what you got when you couldn't get what you wanted.

This puts him in an instructive mood, and I can see he is going to teach me something, which gentlemen are fond of doing.

So few people understand about anything.

The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time.

you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.

She said, What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know an hurt you very much.

Sucked into the well of knowledge, you could only plummet, learning more and more, but not getting any happier.