Quotes About Learning

Seek truth from facts.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Love truth, but pardon error.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.