Quotes About Learning

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

Keep your heart and your soul eager to learn, and the world of Spirit will welcome you and your path as you walk between the worlds

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written

We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has.

like in the institutions, universities, active and responsively responding faculties should be developed in human brain to receive respective knowledge and reality of the world. Otherwise people do not understand what the speaker is saying.

Unless there is a suitable faulty developed in the audience's mind, the speaker will not be understood. So the teacher/speaker should not get irritated when her student/audience takes long time to understand or perceive reality.

Gardeners learn by trowel and error.

Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions. Most adults aren't themselves interested in philosophical questions. They may be threatened by some of them. Moreover, it doesn't occur to most adults that there are questions that a child can ask that they can't provide a definitive answer to and that aren't answered in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia either.

I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention.

Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.