Quotes About Learning

May books and nature be their early joy!

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Learning is by nature, curiosity.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Man must go back to nature for information.

Nature never gives everything at once.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.