Quotes About Learning

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

Callie. (Sin) Aye. (Callie) Can you teach me what love is? (Sin)

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact.

The men sat unbedding their rage, learning, as everyone does in this country, at one time or another, that old hatreds are endlessly retrievable.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Knowledge does not come through force. It can not be taken, it can only be freely received

What we both overlooked was the fact that insight is not only gained by personal reflection, often it is acquired by unexpected experiences that bring new perspectives to our analysis.

humanity has spent too much time in the children's section of the universal library,

You will learn no more once you have decided you know

The ability to admit that you do not know is the surest indication of your enduring strength, Kathryn," he insisted. "Absolute certainty might seem comforting, but is actually proof that you've given up. You will learn no more once you have decided you know. Yes, it's harder to live with the certainty that you don't know, that you will surely fail again. But it is essential if you intend to take command of that fleet." Janeway

The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.

They will also agree with Winston Churchill, who once observed that the US has an innate capability to learn from its mistakes when he remarked that the US always did the right thing when all the alternatives have been exhausted.

Als ob es darauf ankäme, dass man alle diese Bücher, die hier stehen, gelesen hat. Nein, man will sie irgendwann lesen. Man hat sie, damit man in einer bestimmten Stunde einfach an das Regal treten kann, das Buch herauszieht und zu lesen beginnt.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

Pre-Islamic India was renowned for its universities. Great centres of learning like Nalanda, Vaishali, Sarnath, Vikramashila, Takshashila and many more—they attracted students from all over Asia and the world. Following the Islamic invasion of India, all these universities were destroyed. In the centuries following, not a single university was established by any Muslim ruler. This was a Dark Age darker than the one that overtook Europe."294

People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

EDUCATION IS THE PREMISE OF PROGRESS