Quotes About Learning

Always desire to learn something useful.

Cling not to one mood, And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong. For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him, That he alone can speak or think alright, Such oracles are empty breath when tried. The wisest man will let himself be swayed By other's wisdom and relax in time.

To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.

Shall not I Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this, Only so much to hate my enemy, As though he might again become my friend, And so much good to wish to do my friend, As knowing he may yet become my foe?

Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.

Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!

Ah! terrible is knowledge to the man Whom knowledge profits not.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Harsh ways are taught by harshness.

The happiest life consists of ignorance, Before you learn how to grieve or rejoice. --SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.)

But now I have a right to learn from you as you just learned from me.

Creon: You consider it right for a man of my years and experience To go to school to a boy? Haimon: It is not right If I am wrong. But if I am young, and right, What does my age matter?

Think, then, on these things, my son. All men are liable to err; but when an error hath been made, that man is no longer witless or unblest who heals the ill into which he hath fallen, and remains not stubborn. Self-will, we know, incurs the charge of folly.

Destaca-se a prudência sobremodo como a primeira condição para a felicidade. Não se deve ofender os deuses em nada. A desmedida empáfia nas palavras reverte em desmedidos golpes contra os soberbos que, já na velhice, aprendem afinal prudência.

Only fools think that they alone Are wise, and hear no other point of view. À wise man is never ashamed to learn, To listen, and bend when the time is right. When a flood sweeps through a forest, the trees That bend survive, keep every leaf intact; The ones that don't snap off and are swept away. A wise man knows when to slacken sail; À fool refuses and overturns his ship.

The mighty words of the proud are paid in full with mighty blows of fate, and at long last those blows will teach us wisdom.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

You become what you understand.

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering.

Knowledge's surest logic is the lack of knowledge.

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.