Quotes About Learning

Mas talvez seja assim mesmo: todo homem tem que um dia descobrir a pólvora. Ou então não houve experiência. E seu fracasso? como se conciliar com o próprio fracasso? Bem, toda história de uma pessoa é a história de seu fracasso. Através do qual... Ele, aliás, não falhara totalmente.

E foi assim que no grande parque do colégio lentamente comecei a aprender a ser amada, suportando o sacrifício de não merecer, apenas para suavizar a dor de quem não ama. Não, esse foi somente um dos motivos. É que os outros fazem outras histórias. Em algumas foi de meu coração que outras garras cheias de duro amor arrancaram a flecha farpada, e sem nojo de meu grito.

Só há dois modos de descobrir que a Terra é redonda: ou estudando em livros, ou sendo feliz.

Meu erro, no entanto, devia ser o caminho de uma verdade: pois só quando erro é que saio do que conheço e do que entendo. Se a "verdade" fosse aquilo que posso entender – terminaria sendo apenas uma verdade pequena, do meu tamanho.

My error, however, had to be the path of truth: for only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If 'truth' were what I can understand…it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized.

Há coisas que só se aprende quando ninguém as ensina. E com a vida é assim. Mesmo há mais beleza em descobri-la sozinha, apesar do sofrimento.

Grouping students by the same age is just a bad idea. The education-industrial complex is structured around organizing children by age. This is a bad idea for so many reasons.

It is what we think we already know that often prevents us from learning.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.