Quotes About Learning

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

If a man has the will he can learn anything.

Nice passion is reading

Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, there is a minuscule difference between those who know a lot and those who know very little.

Enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in finding it

Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.

A thought can advance your life in the right direction only when it answers questions which were asked by your soul. A thought which was first borrowed from someone else and then accepted by your mind and memory does not really much influence your life, and sometimes leads you in the wrong direction. Read less, study less, but think more. Learn, both from your teachers and from the books which you read, only those things which you really need and which you really want to know.

As his father saw it, he did not want to learn what was taught. But in fact, he could not learn it. He could not, because there were demands in his soul that were more exacting for him than those imposed by his father and the pedagogue. These demands were conflicting, and he fought openly with his educators.

But how do schools help matters?" "They give the peasant fresh wants.

When you carry your burden, you should know that it is good for you to have it. Make the best of this burden and take from it everything which is necessary for your intellectual life, as your stomach takes from food everything necessary for your flesh, or as fire burns brighter after you put some wood on it. —MARCUS AURELIUS

In reality I was ever revolving round one and the same insoluble problem, which was: How to teach without knowing what to teach.

To know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

he made it a rule to read through all the books he bought.

This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line which will be the shortest line between two given points,—and so, in order to make it more easy for myself, I, intending to draw a straight, will choose for my model a crooked line." The weaker my hand, the greater the need that my model should be perfect.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him...

Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people.

To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools.

Prostia vine din înv???tur?

Sta?o si? z nim to, co zawsze dzieje si? z lud?mi, którzy zwracaj? si? do wiedzy nie po to, ?eby odgrywa? w niej rol?: pisa?, dyskutowa?, uczy? innych, lecz zwracaj? si? do wiedzy z bezpo?rednimi, prostymi ?yciowymi pytaniami; nauka odpowiada?a mu na tysi?ce ró?nych bardzo trudnych i zawi?ych pyta?, tylko nie na te pytania, na które szuka? odpowiedzi.

I developed a pathological pride and the insane conviction that it was my mission to teach people without knowing what I was teaching them.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women." ? Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

What I take from my nights, I add to my days.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.