Quotes About Learning

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

Human beings are curious by nature.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.