Quotes About Learning

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Oil the saw, sharpen axes, Learn the names of all the peaks you see and which is highest- there are hundreds- Learn by heart the drainages between Go find a shallow pool of snowmelt on a good day, bathe in the lukewarm water.

There are two things that are really educational. One is being with a bunch of really smart people. The other is being all by yourself.

If you eat, breathe and grow, two things are happening—which have little to do with either air or burgers. You are receiving an education and your "spirit" is being formed. To be alive is to be formed.

Knowing must therefore be accompanied by an equal capacity to forget knowing.

How much philosophers would learn, if they would consent to read the poets!

The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Le paradis, à n'en pas douter, n'est qu'une immense bibliothèque.

Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge.

De waarheid is een gecorrigeerde vergissing.

Avant de penser, il faut étudier. Seuls les philosophes pensent avant d'étudier.

Rule Number One is this: If you're open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you're defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.

Education stems from the desire to learn. With that, you don't need schools. Without it, all the schools in the UNIVERSE are useless.

Most human beings I've met have a rather negative opinion of science. They think it is dull and abstruse, possibly even dangerous. But everyone, even on EARTH, is a scientist, really, whether he realizes it or not. Anyone who has ever watched and wondered how a bird flies, or a leaf unfurls, or concluded anything on the basis of his own observations, is a scientist. Science is a part of life.

They are but children.

Education stems from the desire to learn. With that, you don't need schools. Without it, all the schools in the UNIVERSE are useless.

So, you'd rather just regurgitate what these books tell you than know what really happened? Exactly. No quest for truth? Where's your spirit of exploration? You never went to college, did you?

always hire people who are smarter and better than you are and learn with them.

It is not human nature to dominate, but to create. Yes, humankind falters every now and then, but you know how to learn from your past mistakes. You've done it before, and you can do it again. I believe that ultimately, you will create a civilization that preserves and protects even as it grows. Do you understand? The spirits will always have a place in this world, as long as you -- and humans like you -- create a place for us. - Lady Tienhai, Guardian Spirit/Queen

You have to know your past if you want to create a future.

Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure...

The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.' Hildegrin