Quotes About Learning

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. –Lumbee

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.

And you know all about love, Jaelen? I don't know shit, but I know I have a woman who knows all about it and I learn from her every day. I love going to class. - Parker & Jaelen

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

He used his intellect as he used his legs: to carry him somewhere else. He studied astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, numerology, fortification, divination, organ building, metallurgy, medicine, perspective, the kabbala, toxicology, philosophy, and jurisprudence. He kept his interest in anatomy and did a dissection whenever he could get hold of a body. He learned Arabic, Catalan, Polish, Icelandic, Basque, Hungarian, Romany, and demotic Greek.

When I had exhausted our library I made several excursions—to Saint Andrew's, to Oxford, to the German Universities—and read over the shoulders of mortal students. It was sometimes very trying not being able to turn the pages for myself, since I was a quicker reader than they; but invisibility had its drawbacks.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

[Learning] is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust . . . never fear . . . and never dream of regretting.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

More can be learned about how to write poetry from Dante than from any English poet…. The language of each great English poet is his own language; the language of Dante is the perfection of a common language.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.In order to arrive at what you do not knowYou must go by the way which is the way of ignorance.

And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues...

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

you leave the cage, the transition into the jungle will definitely be challenging. You take a few steps forward and a few back. You stumble and fall and get back on your feet. Such is the way we learn to lean forward and keep stumbling toward success.

if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.