Quotes About Learning

Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things.

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Busy thyself with the secrets of wisdom and knowledge, thus thou shalt overcome the fear of the morrow in thee.

A young khokhem told his grandmother that he was going to become a doctor of philosophy. The bubbe smiled proudly: "Wonderful. But what kind of disease is 'philosophy'?

To be sure, the cheder curriculum was narrowly limited, the pedagogical methods primitive: drill, repetition, and cracks across the knuckles with a pointer or ruler. But at a time when the overwhelming majority of humanity was illiterate, there was hardly a Jewish male over the age of five who could not read and write. The cultural impact and importance of this are for historians, sociologists, and educators to appraise.

when the overwhelming majority of Europeans were illiterate, it would have been hard to find a Jewish male over the age of five who could not read. Virtually every Jewish boy had to learn Hebrew.

In the Jewish communities of Europe, learned but poor Jews were much, much more highly respected than rich but unlearned ones.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.

I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.

Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life.

So LISTEN UP, class! Today we're going to learn all about chain reactions.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing,'" I quoted. "Socrates." Mary Catherine said, "You were already proving your point. You didn't have to back it up with a quote.

Education is about the distribution of knowledge... and to whom we actually distribute this particular commodity is a major question in this country.

I might be a bit slow, but I can learn.