Quotes About Learning

my desire being to gain knowledge at the same time that I improv'd in virtue, and considering that in conversation it was obtain'd rather by the use of the ears than of the tongue, and therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn

A biblioteca foi um meio para eu me desenvolver pela constância do estudo que me consumia de uma a duas horas por dia. [...] A leitura era a única diversão que eu me permitia. Não perdia tempo em tabernas, com jogos ou qualquer outro tipo de futilidade.

Tim was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Locke On Human Understanding, and the Art of Thinking, by Messrs. du Port Royal.

If you empty your purse into your head, no one can take it away from you. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

From Fronto I learned to observe what envy and duplicity and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.

I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find .................for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory, where they will be ready, on some future occasion ............................

However, remember this: They that will not be counseled cannot be helped; and further that, If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles,

Benjamin Franklin

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better languages than the unlearned; but still it is nonsense.

Tell me....And I Forget, Teach me.....And I Learn, Involve Me.....And I Remember.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The schoolteacher asks Billy Bob: "If you have 12 sheeps and one jumps over the fence, how many sheeps do you have left?" Billy Bob answers, "None." "Well" says the teacher, "you sure don't know your subtraction." "Maybe not," Billy Bob replies, "but i darn sure know my sheeps.

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is something more, and that something more is what life is really about.

Knowledge doesn't really care. Wisdom does.

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

Ä°nsan kendi bilgi küresinde olan ÅŸeyden guru duyuyor ama onun bile ötesinde olana ne kadar ba??ml? olduÄŸunu anlamaktan acizdir.

Belki de as?l "iyi" ÅŸeyler s?navlard?r, belki zorluklar ve "kötü" ÅŸeyler büyümemiz için hediyelerdir: problemler çözülmem için, kötü durumlar kaç?n?lmak için, al??kanl?klar deÄŸiÅŸmek, baz? durumlar kabul etmek, dersler öÄŸrenilmek, ÅŸeyler dönüÅŸmek, f?rsatlar Bilgelik-Mutluluk ve Hakikati bulmak içindir.

The world was not a setter of traps, but a teacher of valuable lessons.

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.