Quotes About Learning

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure.

Encourage learning in the areas of discovery and innovation. This is the time for even more creative thinking and greater focus on innovation.

the First Law of Organizational Development is evident: those who were most at home with the necessary activities and arrangements of one phase are the ones who are the most likely to experience the subsequent phase as a severe personal setback. They will talk about it as a "strategic mistake," as "dumb," "unnecessary," and "too expensive.

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life.

The death of our physical bodies is just the beginning of our ongoing education into other dimensional realities.

In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned;Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Proper recitation of the Qur'an opens up the reader to new meanings at every reading. "When meaning repeats itself for someone who is reciting the Qur'an, he has not recited it as it should be recited. This is proof of his ignorance" (F. IV

Fifthly, As to learning their languages, the same means would be found necessary here as in trade between different nations. In some cases interpreters might be obtained, who might be employed for a time; and where these were not to be found, the missionaries must have patience, and mingle with the people, till they have learned so much of their language as to be able to communicate their ideas to them in it.

He loved the way libraries smelled.

Science demands patience.

My favourite definition of "Intellectual" is: "Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence."

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run and often in the short one the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

if she be ignorant of the nature of flour, yeast, malt, and hops, what is she good for?

No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.