Quotes About Learning

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson

He who knows best knows how little he knows

History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

I cannot live without my books -

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

I can't live without books

I cannot live qithout books~ Thomas Jefferson

I can not live without books

It is safer to have a whole people respectably enlightened than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance.

I cannot live without books. --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head.

And as for the human mind, I deny that it is the same in all men.  I hold that there is every variety of natural capacity from the idiot to Newton and Shakespeare; the mass of mankind, midway between these extremes, being blockheads of different degrees; education leaving them pretty nearly as it found them, with this single difference, that it gives a fixed direction to their stupidity, a sort of incurable wry neck to the thing they call their understanding. 

Soll man die Segel streichen und dem Erlebnis ausweichen, sobald es nicht vollkommen danach angetan ist, Heiterkeit und Vertrauen zu erzeugen? Soll man 'abreisen', wenn das Leben sich ein bisschen unheimlich, nicht ganz geheuer oder etwas peinlich und kränkend anlässt? Nein doch, man soll bleiben, soll sich das ansehen und sich dem aussetzen, gerade dabei gibt es vielleicht etwas zu lernen.

romping in pedagogically forbidden territory. They

Knowledge never hurts.

Ak?ll? olmak gerektiÄŸini düÅŸünerek tam öyle olmaya çal??t???m?z s?rada yine aptallaÅŸmak gerektiÄŸini öÄŸreniyoruz.

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

Hans Castorp erfuhr, daß man eine Fertigkeit rasch gewinnt, deren man innerlich bedürftig ist.

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.