Quotes About Learning

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Question the motives of your professors. Pay attention to how they twist the facts, or editorialize during lecture. Ask them questions. Make them defend themselves. Make other students think before they buy into the professorial mindset.

The real mark of education is learning how to think. Swallowing whole what your professors say doesn't teach you to think—it teaches you to think what they want you to think. And that is indoctrination, pure and simple.

The assault on absolute morality is the basis for every brainwashing scheme of the Left. It even bestows upon them the leeway to defend murderers and thugs. Higher learning, indeed.

Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

What is meant by the deposit? That which is committed to you, not that which is invented by you; that which you have received, not that which you have devised; a thing not of wit but of learning; not of private assumption but of public tradition; a thing brought to you, not brought forth from you; thus you must not be an author, but an authorized keeper; not a leader but a follower. Keep the deposit."509

O amor é uma arte que nunca se aprende e sempre se sabe.

La experiencia es una llama que no alumbra sino quemando.

más sabe el que vive sin querer saber que el que quiere saber sin vivir

Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.

Travel teaches toleration.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

We cannot learn men from books.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

nobody in the world ever learns except at his own expense...

Le lingue straniere ringiovaniscono i pensieri.

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.