Quotes About Learning

It is beyond doubt that all knowledge begins with experience.

Denken zonder ervaring is leeg, maar ervaring zonder denken is blind.

Nu se poate înv??a filozofia; se poate înv??a doar filozofarea.

O ser humano é aquilo que a educação faz dele.

In what way will our remote posterity be able to cope with the enormous accumulation of historical records which a few centuries will bequeath to them?

Nobody can claim himself to be practically proficient in a science and yet disdain its theory without revealing himself to be an ignoramus in his area.

Es gibt nichts Praktischeres als eine gute Theorie.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él (Immanuel Kant)

Triviality and certainty are Kinderkrankheiten of knowledge.

Knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.

What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents.

We're better off for all that we let in.

Io non trovo mai nessuna difficoltà ad ammettere di essermi sbagliato perché sono convinto che l'infallibilità sia un'esclusiva di Dio e degli imbecilli.

We read history in order not to have to repeat it.

We read history in order not to have to repeat it. When I

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~ Willa Cather

Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active — of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

La ciencia es conocimiento organizado. La sabiduría es vida organizada

Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others. Yes, we always pay for them, and sometimes the smallest indiscretions cost as much as the largest.

a good education is precisely designed to correct the instincts of human nature.

philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat

God doesn't expect perfection. All he asks is that we learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. He forgives us far more easily than we often forgive ourselves. He also heals the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.