Quotes About Learning

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

The wisest man has something yet to learn.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy

Wer sich an die Vergangenheit nicht erinnert, ist dazu verdammt sie zu wiederholen.

Chi non conosce la storia è condannato a ripeterla.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

Although we cannot rid ourselves of misconceptions, we can correct them when we become aware of them.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Unfortunately, we find systems of education today which have departed so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one's ignorance.