Quotes About Learning

Flo kept reminding me that they gave us an opportunity to teach, though each one was also punishing to the soul.

I thank him for surviving—and teaching.

When new people guide us, we see a new country.

Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River.

But controversy is a teacher. The

How do I love campuses? Let me count the ways. I

We learn most where we know the least. For

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

The secret of life is knowing and applying the secrets of life.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

We in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes doubt.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action

Believe me, dearest, what men call intelligent Often is pedantry and self-conceit.

Du reste je déteste tout ce qui ne fait que m'instruire, sans augmenter mon activité ou l'animer directement.

Yet here poor fool for all my lore, I stand no wiser than before

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him

O verdadeiro analfabetismo é a falta de curiosidade; a curiosidade é a essência da cultura.