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Quotes About Learning

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
~ Umberto Eco
Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.
~ Watchman Nee
The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.
~ William James
To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.
~ William Shakespeare
I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.
~ William Shatner
Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.
~ Shannon L. Alder
There is no better adviser than a good book.
~ Debasish Mridha
I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.
~ Debasish Mridha
I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find
~ W.B. Yeats
Have a choice, learn the process and then go for the success.
~ Debasish Mridha
The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.
~ Debasish Mridha
Teaching is the best way to learn.
~ Debasish Mridha
He who knows more is more responsible.
~ Alireza Salehi Nejad
Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.
~ Debasish Mridha
Diversity is wisdom.
~ Sheila Renee Parker
Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.
~ Winston S. Churchill
We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.
~ Sharon Lee, Necessity's Child