Quotes About Learning

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.

Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

Don't forget in the darkness what you learned in the light.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

In learning to learn again, we can learn of this wisdom and allow our children (and so ourselves) to become the free, whole individuals this good earth has prepared us to be.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Para vivir una vida creativa, debemos perder nuestro miedo a equivocarnos" (Joseph Chilton Pearce)

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

He who never makes a mistake, never makes anything.