Quotes About Learning

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

Learn from your past mistakes, but don't dwell on them.

Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won't feel like your first.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don't prove that you shouldn't try again.

The study book for life's tests is the whole of our experience. Though we may feel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.

Such lifetimes are a crash course in creation. If the learning is not accomplished in that lifetime, the learning continues in between lifetimes and into the next.

Reading is soul work!

Some people never get farther than where they start from, never find out what else there is, or ask questions, or get answers.

Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.

Quizás esté mal, Eva, pero el Mal también es parte del conocimiento.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

E poi che cosa credeva, il signorino Bruno, che fare il calzolaio non presentasse dei lati interessanti? Qualsiasi attività umana ne presenta. Basta esercitarla con passione, riuscire a conoscerla nei suoi segreti.

It is surely good method to posit our ignorance of a dazzling, familiar and yet ununderstood word, by treating it formally as an unknown term, and trying to define it by context

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

Mie îmi trebuiau inimi iubitoare È™i, mai ales, creiere active È™i libere. Oameni ca mine, care nu fac o figur? prea str?lucit? la È™coal?, dar care citesc, gândesc, rumeg? îndelung È™i au curiozit??i ieÈ™ite din comun È™i vise n?zdr?vane. Am g?sit unul singur, dar nu era elev, era profesor.

Qué era lo que yo quería aprender? ¿Qué quería hacer? No lo sabía. Ni programas ni guías: ninguna idea concreta. De acá o de allá, este u oeste, en profundidad o en altura. Solamente saber, saber todo. —He aquí la palabra de mi desastre: ¡todo!

Nelle scuole abbiamo […] l'immobilità dello spirito obbligato a ripetere invece che a cercare.

Non s'impara qualcosa dagli altri che nelle conversazioni a due, dove colui che insegna si adatta alla natura dell'altro, rispiega, esemplifica, domanda, discute e non detta il suo verbo dall'alto.

When I was young I read almost always to learn; Today, sometimes, I read to forget.

Se, joka pakotetaan antautumaan, saa voittajaltaan palveluksia: tappion kärsinyt palaa kotiin rikastuneena, siis oppineempana, ja hän on paremmin varustautunut tulevia koitoksia varten.

Alle volte, la cultura è più un male che un bene

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

moço de dezasseis anos que não sabia nada, mas era precisamente por essa razão que estava mais adaptado ao mundo novo do que ele, que sabia tudo.