Quotes About Learning

I do not want to believe. I want to know.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. EPICTETUS, Roman philosopher and former slave, Discourses

In a world in transition, students and teachers both need to teach themselves one essential skill - learning how to learn.

As the pioneering physicist Benjamin Franklin put it, "In going on with these experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves obliged to destroy?

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival.

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Si uno crece en una casa donde hay libros, donde alguien le lee, donde padres, hermanos, tías, tíos y primos leen por placer, es natural que aprenda a leer. Si no hay nadie cerca que disfrute leyendo, ¿dónde está la prueba de que vale la pena?

Si la calidad de la educación que uno tiene a su alcance es inadecuada, si a uno le enseñan a memorizar al pie de la letra y no a pensar, si el contenido de lo que se nos da para leer viene de una cultura casi ajena, la alfabetización puede ser un camino lleno de obstáculos.

In addition, science is a delight; evolution has arranged that we take pleasure in understanding - those who understand are more likely to survive.

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ALBERT EINSTEIN

the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879–1955)

we are privileged to live among brilliant and passionately inquisitive people, and in time when the search for knowledge is generally prized

There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.

We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.

Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.

Something dreadful happens to students between first and twelfth grades, and it's not just puberty.

To read is to voyage through time.

Saber muito não lhe torna inteligente. A inteligência se traduz na forma que você recolhe, julga, maneja e, sobretudo, onde e como aplica esta informação.

Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights.

His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Alguien escribió una vez: Somos todos niños en un vasto jardín de infantes, procurando formar el nombre de Dios con letras de un rompecabezas que está equivocado.