Quotes About Learning

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Exist? dou? fa?ete ale istoriei, cea oficial?, mincinoas?, care ne este adus? la cuno?tiin?? pentru a fi înv??at? – ad usum delphini – ?i fa?eta secret?, în care se g?sesc adev?ratele cauze ale evenimentelor.

But, after all, too much knowledge, like ignorance, brings you to a negation.

La chiave di tutte le scienze è indiscutibilmente il punto di domanda.

Mother and daughter looked at one another as if Pons were speaking Chinese. No one can imagine how ignorant and exclusive Parisians are; they only learn what they are taught, and that only when they choose.

He is the only real revolutionary, the authentic scientist, because he alone knows how liddle he knows.

When he gets uppity about his supposed learning, I just take it on myself to remind him that God and his angels know almost as much as college professors.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as frequently as the right ones.

The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Failure doesn't only make us stronger; it makes us smarter and grateful and . . . more humble.

Todo joven comete errores -dijo Makoto-. Es nuestro destino tener que convivir con las consecuecias.

It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

For the first time ever, she saw her mother as just a girl: a girl like her who made mistakes, who screwed things up, who was just making it all up as she went along.

Real people don't have the answers. They make mistakes. They say things with great authority and they're wrong.

Perhaps we all need a good thump on the head from time to time?

It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master.

He'd be fine. Every child went to school. They survived. They learned the rules of life.

It had felt like she was starting a new job: her job as a primary school mother. There would be rules and paperwork and procedures to learn.

Hindsight,' said her father. 'It's always just a fraction too late.