Quotes About Learning

LEARN AS THOUGH YOU WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO MASTER IT

No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out anyone who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to anyone, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.

On peut obliger le peuple à obéir. On ne peut pas le forcer à comprendre.

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.

Give me a few more years so that I am studying at fifty, and surely I may avoid major errors.

The Master said, "You [Zilu], do you know what I have been trying to teach you? To say that you know something when you know it and to say that you do not know something when you do not know it—this is true knowing [zhi].

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Adev?rata cunoa?tere este a-?i ?ti dimensiunea ignoran?ei.

you cannot open a book without learning something

He said : Not to know the decree is to be without the means of being a proper man. 2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to construct. 3. Not to know words is to be without the fluid needful to understand men.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Learning without thinking is wasted effort; thinking without learning is dangerous

The Master said, Study as though you could never catch up, [and if you did,] you would still be fearful of losing it.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions

The Master said, "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." The Master said, "The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!"               The Master said, "Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;-this is knowledge.

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

The Master said, "I do not open the way for students who are not driven with eagerness; I do not supply a vocabulary for students who are not trying desperately to find the language for their ideas. If on showing students one corner they do not come back to me with the other three, I will not repeat myself.

The Master said, "In strolling in the company of just two other persons, I am bound to find a teacher. Identifying their strengths, I follow them, and identifying their weaknesses, I reform myself accordingly.

Practicing archery is like practicing to be a Gentleman. When you miss the bulls-eye, you look for the error in yourself.

He answered, How dare I look as high as Hui? When Hui hears one thing, he understands ten; when I hear one thing I understand two.

IgnoranÈ›a genereaz? mai des încredere în sine decât cunoÈ™tinÈ›ele.