Quotes About Learning

The trouble was the familiar one: too much power, too little knowledge.

They went to school, apparently, to learn to say over and over again, regardless of where they were, what had already been said too often. They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.

I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to learn.

Why do you like books so much?" he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. "You never know what you'll learn when you open one. And if it's a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.

The lessons he learned were diligently applied to modify his methods, resulting in a continuous research loop

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

Only a few know, how much one must know, to know how little one knows

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

a favourite master, Mr. Grove, liked to say that if we learned to master the semi-colon we could expect to be successful in whatever path we chose in life. One

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

but often it is best to plead ignorance. That way you are more likely to learn secrets that might otherwise have been denied you.

Mr. Troy was not only a man of learning and experience in his profession—he was also a man who had seen something of society at home and abroad. He possessed a keen eye for character, a quaint humour, and a kindly nature which had not been deteriorated even by a lawyer's professional experience of mankind. With

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

History is mostly guessing, the rest is prejudice.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding

Facts replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom.

We are choked with News and starved of History.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

He who leaves his home in search of knowledge walks in the path of God … and the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr";