Quotes About Learning

In India, it takes a classic apprentice five years to learn how to sit at the sitar before he's allowed to play a note. It's not just the reaction that says How dare you know? It's something deeper: How dare you presume to say you know?

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

An ignorant man is easily pleased, learned man even easier, but a man distorted by little knowledge, even Brahma can not please.

Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am.

Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.

Dropouts are only one outcome of bad quality. Poor learning outcomes, low employability of graduates, low productivity, and consequent low wages constitute another set of outcomes.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

The fear of Jehovah is a training in wisdom, and before glory there is humility.

How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!

In much wisdom is much grief.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

Ustas? kar??s?nda yitip gitmek üzereyken...Bekliyordu.Ustan?n son ad?m? atmas?n? bekliyordu hâlâ.Ustas?,orta ipin alt?ndaki halkaya tutunmu?tu bile.Ama seyircilerin çepeçevre sard???,ince kum dö?eli oyun alan? kendisine h?zla yakla??rken,ba??rt?lar?n,ç??l?klar?n içinde seçemedi ustas?n?n "vah ?a?k?n o?lum" diyen sesini.??itemedi.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..

What do we hope to accomplish? What will help us realize our deepest dreams and desires? In what ways is education liberating, and in what ways can schooling be entangling and oppressive? Can learning be cast as a creative act, enjoyable and social, or is it always framed as competitive and brutal? What does it mean to be an educated person? What does it mean to be free? Awakened to fundamental and forbidden questions, a new world of possibilities heaves into view.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Any dog owner knows that Pavlov's dog wouldn't have salivated when he heard the bell ring. He would have learned to ring the bell when he was hungry.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.