Quotes About Learning

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I dont, I learn from the match and move on.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

All knowledge is worth having

Life is a school of probability.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever

A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.