Quotes About Learning

Learning was a serious business, involving endless drills, infinite rules, long hours. There was no such thing as a weekend; one studied on all save for festival days, which came with merciful regularity in Alexandria.

What good were these experiments?" went the skeptic's question. To which Franklin replied, "What good is a new-born babe?" In some versions he continued: "He may be an imbecile, or a man of great intelligence. Let us wait for him to complete his studies before judging him.

But she didn't know that when she was younger; then, the classroom was just a place that transformed itself based on whatever she was supposed to learn that day, like the Room of Requirement.

Reading is very good.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

winning teaches you nothing. Losing can be the greatest teacher of all

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

One of the most incredible secrets of science fiction (although one not too closely guarded) is the fact that 99 percent of its authors do not know even the titles and authors of today's learned works, but still they want to top these scholars with their knowledge of the year 6000.

he was at home whenever he could quench his thirst for knowledge;...

specjalista to barbarzyÅ"ca, którego ignorancja nie jest wszechstronna

They have shown school as a complex game, a battle of opposing interests, where the teacher, representing authority and power, attempts to pack the maximum information into the students' heads, while the students, by nature the weaker side, do their best to avoid that information.

Want to hear my favorite definition of a human? A creature who likes to talk most about what he knows least.

La ignorancia de la propia ignorancia acompaña firmemente al conocimiento.

It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

Cada vez hay más científicos y menos sabios.

El ser humano no es capaz de formular todos los conocimientos que debe a sus experiencias personales.

Instead of learning something about an alien intelligence, they had learned how close the bonds of mental kinship were between man and his computer. The nearness of the alien civilization-practically within arm's reach - became a separating distance that mocked their attempts to get to the heart of it.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. —C. S. Lewis, Selected Literary Essays

Estoy aquí para aprender a amar».

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

In 1994, several students and I interviewed a ninety-five-year-old woman for an oral history project. She told us that as a teenager she went to the movies to learn the right way to kiss, and after the movie she and her boyfriend would drive to the local lovers' lane to try out the new techniques. Overhearing, the woman sitting next to her in the nursing home lounge exclaimed: "Oh, my goodness, I always thought I was so bad for doing that!

Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.