Quotes About Learning

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.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Health is worth more than learning.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600,000. No, I replied, I just spent 600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Good companies embrace a culture of mini-failures.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

O God, You Who are the truth, make me one with You in love everlasting. I am often wearied by the many things I hear and read, but in You is all that I long for. Let the learned be still, let all creatures be silent before You; You alone speak to me.

More to the point, they get to make their mistakes as individuals and not as representatives of an entire race.

The thinkers and works of the past are studied here not as dated museum pieces or objects of antiquarian curiosity; they are confronted as powerful voices that challenge us to join in searching debates. The point is not to learn about these thinkers and texts, but from them.

Science is unique among human ways of knowing because it is self-correcting. Every

From them I had nothing to learn—one cannot cease to know what one does know.