Quotes About Learning

I think it's very important to live a varied and interesting life before you try to write one.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.

To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both.—Bacon: Advancement of Learning.

I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.

ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

The truth is something you must find out for yourself. It is like a voyage of discovery and you will meet many adventures along the way. Listen to people's opinions but in the end it must be for you to determine truth as you find it. Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

Ignorance breeds confidence more often than knowledge

it appears to me, the doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelyhood pursue.

Ngu d?t má»›i là th? hay sinh ra sá»± tá»± ph? ch? không ph?i là tri th?c.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Well! this time next year, we will know all of which we are now ignorant.

Children rediscover their parents wisdom when they finally become adults themselves.

Miss Howell, I worry that the pains your father has taken to educate you will result in little but finding himself with a wit on his hands.

Quit puzzling over it. The worst you can do is fail to kill a turkey and there's not a hunter in the world hasn't done that. Go on.

educated beyond the point considered wise for females

To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don't know, or worse, merely guess at what they mean without bothering to look them up. For me, reading has always been not only a quest for pleasure and enlightenment but also a word-hunting expedition, a lexical safari.

Charles Harrington Elster

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

We will be the same person in 5 years that we are today except for 2 things: the people we meet and the book we read

There are essentially two things that will make us wiser: the books we read and the people we meet.

One mantra of Silicon Valley, the technological innovation capital of the world, is "fail faster to succeed sooner.