Quotes About Learning

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.'

I actually went to university.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

Don't let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

When we have learnt through a period of finely honed training to live in Imaginative Thinking, when we can engage the whole of our being in this Imaginative Thinking, we find that it immerses us in a reality hitherto unknown to us.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.