Quotes About Learning

Almost all the earliest conversations I remember with my parents were about books:

The Uncommon Reader,

I consider the education of our senses and our emotions rather more important than the education of our ideas.

there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

Good books often answer question you did not even know you wanted to ask

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose—electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio—is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation. Mom

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

one of the things I learned from Mom is this: Reading isn't the opposite of doing; it's the opposite of dying.

The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

As the psychologist Professor Brian Little writes, 'All individuals are essentially scientists erecting and testing their hypotheses about the world and revising them in the light of their experience.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

There aren't two worlds, education and work; there is one world-life. Learning by hands-on participation .... should be at the heart of our educational perspective.

Een verschrikkelijke haat tegen leerboeken komt vlaagsgewijze over mij. staan niet in leerboeken de dingen beschreven alsof iedereen altijd geweten heeft dat ze zo waren? Niets blijft er in een leerboek over van de moeite, de twijfel en de wanhoop die bestaan hebben voor een bepaalde conclusie was bereikt.

Wat had je eraan, alleen feiten in je hoofd te stampen en daarmee over de smerige straten van Amsterdam te sjokken, met studiegenoten die vol platvloerse politieke ideeën zaten, die nergens anders op uit waren dan hun leermeesters te treiteren, en, zonder te genieten van wat ze moesten leren, hun kille wrok met allerlei onzin bot te vieren?

In elk geval komt er een tijd dat het christendom uit boekjes geleerd zal worden op school, net zoals men nu de mythologie van de Grieken en de Romeinen op school leert.

Nadie puede arrancar dos veces desde el mismo punto. Todo experimento que no pueda repetirse no es, en modo alguno, un experimento. Nadie puede experimentar con su vida. Nadie debería reprocharse el vivir a ciegas.

affirmative action programs that were intended to broaden the leadership population have been so misunderstood and misused (by cynical white male managers far more than by minority applicants, it must be said) that their chief effect has been, perversely, to de-credential those minority achievers who rise entirely through diligence, industry, and learning.

It is the great glory of the quest for human knowledge that, while making some small contribution to that quest, we can also continue to learn and to take pleasure in learning.