Quotes About Learning

We must learn from the past, not relive it time and again.

A scholar who thinks s/he knows everything is a false scholar.

Curiosity is an engine of success.

I am a teacher of many, but a student of life, for when I teach, I also learn. my students show me the effects of my works. I do not teach radicalization, nor confrontation. I give the education for a healing of the nation, from which peace should flow.

My quotes are like an endless stream in the reality of life. Those who learn from what I share become the ground penetrating, mesmerizing forces, seen but unseen, to which no technology can detect. The forces which traverses the blood brain barrier leaving no visible mark on the M.R.I images.

I'm saying it to your face. Just because you can drive a car doesn't mean you can fix one. Eating ham ain't the same as raising a pig.

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.

Rich wisdom is better even than rich soil, young Neil. Jose sees now that you grow in wisdom like a weed in manure.

If you want to write ... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

In his sufferings, Job has learned that God is greater than his theology. This is a truth we all need to learn. We tend to think we know how God will act in every situation. And the moment we have God neatly confined in our little theological box. He does something surprising!

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.

With schools turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word "intellectual," of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.