Quotes About Learning

For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts, but to understand how other men have acted in the past, so that he can compare his own situation with theirs.

Çocuk okuma yazma bilmiyordu henüz, ama ÅŸunu öÄŸrenmiÅŸti: Yeryüzündeki her ÅŸeyden ve herkesten korkmak gerekirdi!

Das Studium ist nicht einmal Nebensache, es ist Formalität:

To know by heart is not to know, it is to keep what they have given you and store it in your memory.

seine Unbildung war auf allen Gebieten gleich universell«.

Und der einzige wirklich beschwingte Glücksmoment, den ich der Schule zu danken habe, wurde der Tag, da ich ihre Tür für immer hinter mir zuschlug.

Nur wer früh seine Seele weit auszuspannen gelernt, vermag später die ganze Welt in sich zu fassen.

Cómo soporta uno que lo único que puede llegar a conocer sea lo que llega por casualidad a sus ojos, a sus oídos? ¿Cómo se puede respirar sin el aire universal que brota de los libros?

Carlyle's axiom that the true university of these days is a good collection of books has remained valid as far as I'm concerned, and even today I am convinced that one can become an excellent philosopher, historian, philologist, lawyer, or what will you, without having attended a university or even a Gymnasium.

La vera universalità non può venire da fugaci letture o discussioni, ma va conquistata con anni e anni di ardenti fatiche.

Nel suo superno mondo dei libri, non c'era guerra, non c'erano malintesi: c'era solo l'eterno sapere e voler sempre più sapere in fatto di numeri e parole, di titoli e nomi.

Daha bir saat öncesine kadar her ÅŸeyi bildiÄŸini san?rken ÅŸimdi onca s?rr?n ve sorunun yan?ndan dikkatsizce geçip gitmiÅŸ olduÄŸunu hissediyor ve hayata daha ilk ad?m?n? att???nda bilgisizliÄŸi yüzünden tökezlediÄŸini görmekten utanç duyuyordu.

M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however .

Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not yet learned to wring living colour from his palette.

I found, after spending ten years as a journalist, learning to say exactly what I meant in short sentences, that I must learn, if I was to achieve literature and favourable reviews, to write as though I were not quite sure about what I meant but was jolly well going to say something all the same in sentences as long as possible.

My salad days, when I was green in judgment.

Learning and seeing are more important than education.

Bei der Beschäftigung mit Geschichte ist Langsamkeit ein Vorzug. Der Forscher verzögert die rasenden Vorgänge von damals, bis sein Verstand sie fassen kann. Dann aber weist er dem schnellsten König nach, wie er im Gefecht hätte handeln sollen.

Auf dem Pult] stand die Sanduhr. Alle Körner mußten durch die Engstelle, um unten denselben Haufen zu bilden wie vordem oben. Der entstandene Zeitverlust hieß Lateinstunde.

Die Menschheit werde lernen, meinte er. Sie lerne etwas langsamer, als er angenommen habe. "Es liegt daran, daß die Tüchtigen ständig versuchen, das wenige von der Welt zu verändern, was sie kennen. Eines Tages werden sie die Welt entdecken, statt sie zu verbessern. Und nicht mehr vergessen, was sie schon entdeckt haben.

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.

Me no read. Look how smart me is.

Humility is what you strive for when you've failed at everything else.

which no other failed applicant had even thought of trying to do, because most people don't regard seeing as a skill you can get better at. And when it came to