Quotes About Learning

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.

Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing.

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students.

A man, any man, will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of...

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made. The

books are the society we keep... Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

Wir haben heute Professoren der Philosophie, aber keine Philosophen.

Fui a los bosques porque quería vivir deliberadamente; enfrentar solo los hechos de la vida y ver si podía aprender lo que ella tenía que enseñar. Quise vivir profundamente y desechar todo aquello que no fuera vida... para no darme cuenta, en el momento de morir, que no había vivido.

Cómo podría recordar su ignorancia —según requiere su crecimiento— quien ha de usar tanto su conocimiento?

Es un disparate intentar educar a los hijos dentro de una ciudad. El primer paso ha de ser sacarlos de ella.

My residence was more favorable, not only to thought, but to serious reading, than a university;

instant. Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful—while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with—he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows

Books are the treasured wealth of the world.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. You must be aware that no thing is what you have taken it to be. You have got to be in a different state from the common.

Siempre he deplorado no ser tan sabio como lo era el día en que nací

I think that having learned our letters we should read the best that is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a b abs, and words of one syllable, in the fourth or fifth classes, sitting on the lowest and foremost form all our lives. Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers.

Fui a los bosques porque quería vivir deliberadamente, enfrentar solo los hechos esenciales de la vida, y ver si no podía aprender lo que ella tenia que enseñar, no sea que cuando estuviera por morir descubriera que no había vivido».

Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of universities, with leisure — if they are, indeed, so well off — to pursue liberal studies the rest of their lives.

It is as possible for a man to know something without having been at school, as it is to have been at school and to know nothing. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones