Quotes About Learning

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

The difference between the ages of ten and fourteen is immense.

Responsibility Training is rigged from the ground up so that the students win.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Las crepas ya intenté hacerlas, pero me salen unas vomitadas de borracho. Pues, al voltearlas, se me hacen pelota y me quedan crudas. Es inútil que quiera dedicarme a cocinera, pues lo hago demasiado mal y lo echo a perder todo. Así es que mejor me esperaré para cuando llegue a México tu me enseñes

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

Most people are satisfied too soon, and that is the reason why there is so little wisdom in the world.

Der Mensch lernt in der Katastrophe, menschlich zu leben, was er im Frieden nicht kann.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

The doer alone learneth.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.