Quotes About Learning

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Ma dove troverò mai il tempo per non leggere tante cose?

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

All life is problem solving

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.

Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.

The method of learning by trial and error—of learning from our mistakes—seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practised by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees or by men of science.

Great men may make great mistakes;

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.

An argument which appeals to the fact that we possess knowledge or that we can learn from experience, and which concludes from this fact that knowledge or learning from experience must be possible, and further, that every theory which entails the impossibility of knowledge, or of learning from experience, must be false, may be called a 'transcendental argument'.

Adev?rata ignoran?? nu este absen?a cunoa?terii, ci refuzul de a o dobândi.

Science is a 'trial and error' learning process, and one of the virtues of an open society is its ability to learn from experience. Closed societies resist novelty and therefore pass up the chance to learn from experience.

By criticizing our theories we can let our theories die in our stead.