Quotes About Learning

I have learnt that handling the brain tells you nothing about life - other than to be dismayed by its fragility.

It was miserable work, with little reward, and I learned much about the limitations of human kindness, and in particular my own.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

while hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that builds wisdom.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

A good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.

No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. Contrary to their popular characterization as intellectual conservatives, engineers are really among the avant-garde.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you, with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last. —Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Yet the bookshelf us also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.

Engineers ... are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch them is imperative. Thus it is the essence of modern engineering not only to be able to check one's own work but also to have one's work checked and to be able to check the work of others.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

In my world there would be as many libraries as there are Starbucks.

I will do to you what you taught me. I will pass my fingers over my scars and read them like Braille and they will tell me what to do.

Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Unuttuklar?n?z için harcad???n?z uzun saatlere de üzülmemelisiniz, çünkü yitirilen bilginin gölgesi sizi en az?ndan birçok yan?lsamadan korur. (William Johnson Cory)

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.