Quotes About Learning

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Communication comes with practice. As a leader you must speak the truth; listen for understanding; and learn from what you hear and do not hear.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that's how we learn.

That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

The only way one can display learning is by playing with it. Because the truth is that there's something embarrassing about displaying heavy knowledge. You feel sort of annoying.

If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.