Quotes About Learning

Someone once commented that I have a great thirst for knowledge, to which I replied, what the hell? I'll drink anything.

When it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good.

So, the scholars are tedious, the experts never see the whole truth of things, still they have their role to play.

Wasn't it made clear that civilization is not an end in itself but a theater or gymnasium in which the evolving individual finds facilities for practice?

I was seven or eight months old - a creeping, crawling carpet crab.

taught me to fish in the little lagoon using a bent pin and a piece of bread. Gerry

Literacy was power.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. —Marcus Tullius Cicero

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

Well, we'll know better next time.

A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time.

I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can't be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary... I forget the third thing.

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.

As her tutor you have a duty to keep her in ignorance.

Mr Hodge, ignorance should be like an empty vessel waiting to be filled at the well of truth – not a cabinet of vulgar curios.

Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth.

It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Somos, así, los libros que hemos leído. O somos, de lo contrario, el vacío que la ausencia de libros de libros ha abierto en nuestras vidas

Somos, así, los libros que hemos leído. O somos, de lo contrario, el vacío que la ausencia de libros ha abierto a nuestras vidas.

Somos así, los libros que hemos leído. O somos, de lo contrario, el vacío que la ausencia de libros ha abierto en nuestras vidas.