Quotes About Learning

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Teaching was the best way to learn.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser.

There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

A good business book teaches simple truths.