Quotes About Learning

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Understanding is the key to true knowledge

Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.