Quotes About Learning

All those who teach are hated.

that's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you.

There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.

it's not wise to deny everything you can't understand.

Of the trail of ink there is no end,'" Master Ultan told me. "Or so a wise man said. He lived long ago—what would he say if he could see us now? Another said, 'A man will give his life to the turning over of a collection of books,' but I would like to meet the man who could turn over this one, on any topic.

You always use that word remember,' said Milena. 'You say, remember, team. You never tell us to think.

What have you learned Dorothy? he asked her. Dorothy thought for a moment and said, I learned to be disappointed and not to hope too much. I learned how to be beaten and how to beat others. I learned that I am worthless and the world is worthless, and that love is a lie and if it's not a lie, then it's wasted. They learned you wrong, he said.

For he would rather have, by his bedside, twenty books, bound in black or red, of Aristotle and his philosophy, than rich robes or costly fiddles or gay harps.

High in moral virtue was his speech, and gladly would he learn and gladly teach.

De qué sirve tener posesiones si un hombre carece de conocimientos?

For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis; Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.

And Seneca says, 'Whosoever would have wisdom shall disdain no man, but he shall gladly teach what he knows, without presumption or pride, and of such things as he does not know, he shall not be ashamed to learn them, and shall inquire of lesser folk than himself.

Todo lo que se escribe, se escribe para nuestra enseñanza.»

For the common proverb says thus, 'He who judges in haste shall soon repent.

The greatest Scholars are not the wisest men,' as once unto the wolf thus spoke the mare. Of all their artifice, I account not a whit.

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Education in its early stages always begins with fault-finding, but when it is complete, it sees the positive element in everything.

It is not the purpose of philosophy to edify

Die Pädagogik ist die Kunst, die Menschen sittlich zu machen.

In vain do we extend our view into the heavens, and pry into the entrails of the earth, in vain do we consult the writings of learned men, and trace the dark footsteps of antiquity; we need only draw the curtain of words, to behold the fairest tree of knowledge, whose fruit is excellent, and within the reach of our hand.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.