Quotes About Learning

I'm not young enough to know everything.

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Ich weiss, dass ich nichts weiss, und kaum das.

Inspire creativity in students

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?

si no estás preparado para equivocarte, nunca se te ocurrirá nada original.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

I now have learn'd Love right, and learn'd even so, As who by being poisoned doth poison know.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

An old and gray-headed error.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

I had read my way not to knowledge but into an inscrutable oblivion.

And perception is a complex phenomenon. Our brains are not cameras or recording devices. Visual perception is active and shaped by both conscious and unconscious forces. Expectation is crucial to perceptual experience, and what to expect about how the world works is learned, and once something is learned well, it becomes unconscious.

In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery. In the next book I will find it - some unspeakable pleasure or startling revelation or extraordinary nuance I had never felt or thought of before.

Despite my efforts, I was something less than a model student, subject to passionate eruptions in class and wild excursions into related topics. At home I rehearsed calm deliveries, practiced lowering my voice to make it sound authoritative and cool, but in the heat of the moment, I would always forget.

I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!

In your light I learn how to love.