Quotes About Learning

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

History teaches everything, even the future.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.