Quotes About Learning

But he's not known for taking on apprentices.

You aren't stupid, Lillian,' said Uncle Victor, smiling and shaking his head, 'but sometimes the things you do are.

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.

plans." To be sure, illusions have their function. Small children often need security blankets to soothe their fears. Yet for the mature adult, a high need for certainty can be a dangerous thing. It prevents us from learning to face the uncertainty pervading our lives. As hard as we try, we cannot make our lives risk-free the way we make our milk fat-free.

The quest for certainty is the biggest obstacle to becoming risk savvy. While there are things we can know, we must also be able to recognize when we cannot know something.

Wenn man mündige Bürger haben will, muss man ihnen drei Dinge beibringen: Lesen, Schreiben und – statistisches Denken.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life

Necessity teaches all things

The old forget, the young don't know.

He who teaches children learns more than they do.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

You know nothing John Snow" -- the wildling Ygritte

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

You'll Never Win ... until you Lose

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

One who makes no mistakes makes nothing at all.

Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit. (He knows nothing who does not profit from what he knows.)

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.