Quotes About Learning

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." – Snipes (185)

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.

If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.

Man errs as long as he strives.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.