Quotes About Learning

I am not young enough to know everything.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

Focus on quality and ease of movement, not on the age a milestone is accomplished.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline