Quotes About Learning

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

Truth cannot be imparted, it must be inflicted.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

God calls me to write the truth of my life transparently so that others can learn from my hurt and heartache without taking the field trip themselves.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

I feel more comfortable being honest because I don't have to "remember" my answers. You never forget the truth! I just have to learn how much truth to give, that's my boundary. That's my new thing.

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.

Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth