Quotes About Learning

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in the history.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

You are only as good as your last mistake.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas.

We not only learn, but we also learn to gradually change our conceptual framework and to adapt it to what we learn.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

Science is born from this act of humility: not trusting blindly in our past knowledge and our intuition. Not believing what everyone says. Not having faith in the accumulated knowledge of our fathers and grandfathers. We learn nothing if we think that we already know the essentials, if we assume that they were written in a book or known by the elders of the tribe. The centuries in which people had faith in what they believed were the centuries in which little new was learned.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is our nature to be so.

Undistracted by schooling, one studies best during vacations

I chose as my supervisor a professor who allowed me to continue to study what I wanted.

The search for knowledge is not nourished by certainty: it is nourished by a radical absence of certainty.

I periodi di vacanza sono quelli in cui si studia meglio, perché non si è distratti dalla scuola.