Quotes About Learning

The desire to know is natural to good men.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Therefore O students study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

Il libro è una cosa: lo si può mettere su un tavolo e guardarlo soltanto, ma se lo apri e leggi diventa un mondo." - Leonardo Sciascia

The Italian Renaissance was as much an age of culture and learning as of violence and deceit.

Es nützt nichts, das Buch in der Mitte wegzuwerfen, nur weil man etwas nicht versteht!

Every mistake we make in these dances must be turned into a question, otherwise they are fatal to our human condition.

To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Indian activist, Mahatma Gandhi, who was a leader and guru, had a HUNGER for peace and justice. One of his sayings was, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Each difference in a relationship represents an opportunity for the participants to grow and stretch.

Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next decade or two, some acquire a sense of mastery over their surroundings; others acquire a profound sense of helplessness.

The more a man learns, Dickens said, "the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered for the truth in every age and time… he will become more tolerant of other men's belief in all matters, and will incline more leniently to their sentiments when they chance to differ from his own.

The more a man learns, Dickens said, "the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered for the truth in every age and time…he will become more tolerant of other men's belief in all matters

The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.

wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice, and then go back and do it again.