Quotes About Learning

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

History should be written as philosophy.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.