Quotes About Learning

Kate's story raises for me an astonishing point, Tom. And that is, when I'm in the box, I need people to cause trouble for me — I actually need problems.

And that is, when I'm in the box, I need people to cause trouble for me — I actually need problems.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

To free a man from error is to give, not take away

But mostly I learned to cook from my mother. There weren't any blintz-style lessons. I absorbed her preferences and prejudices over the years the way that I absorbed her gestures and her speech pattern, until ultimately my cooking tastes slightly but unmistakably like hers.

Es ignorancia no saber distinguir entre lo que necesita demostración y lo que no la necesita.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

All men by nature desire to know.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all                       

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

We Can't learn without pain.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up.