Quotes About Learning

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Do you know," asks Emerson, "the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and In that I am his pupil.

Leonardo called "the noblest pleasure, the joy of understanding.

And indeed, great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

Education is the reason why we behave like human beings. We are hardly born human. We are born ridiculous, malodorous animals. We become human. We have humanity thrust upon us through the hundred channels whereby the past pours down into the present that mental and cultural inheritance--whose preservation, emulation, and transmission places mankind today, with all of its defectives and illiterates, on a higher plain than any generation has ever reached before.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Some books are to be tasted," reads a famous passage, "others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested";

The elements of instruction . . . should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion; for a freeman should be a freeman too in the acquisition of knowledge . . . . Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child (536).

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child

in both cases the desire for knowledge had ended bliss. Sophisticates

Before Aristotle, science was in embryo; with him it was born.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Now began the great game of epistemology

Perhaps, within these limits, we can learn enough from history to bear reality patiently, and to respect one another's delusions.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

Knowledge grows, but wisdom, though it can improve with years, does not progress with centuries. I cannot instruct Solomon. So, brave reader, you have fair warning: proceed at your own risk. But I shall be warmed by your company. Will Durant

Our children bring us up by showing us, through imitation, what we really are.

A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.

Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new information leads to an increase in ignorance, it is the opposite of learning, the death of wisdom.

our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.

Information is supposed to inform. That means it has to be reliable, relevant, current, and so on. There was a time when people believed that, given the right information, we