Quotes About Learning

For scientists, not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover; the more that is unknown, the greater the opportunity.

It's very hard to master and if you're not learning all the time, you will fail. That being said, humility in the face of the game is extremely different than humility in the face of your opponents.

Be careful about making assumptions of expertise, ask experts if you can find them, reexamine your assumptions from time to time.

Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs. These habits of thought can be learned and cultivated by any intelligent, thoughtful, determined person.

Knowing what we don't know is better than thinking we know what we don't.

The past must be remembered before it can be overcome.

forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.

unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.

From Jesus I learn that, whatever activism I get involved in, it must not drive out love and humility, or otherwise I betray the kingdom of heaven. The Jesus I Never Knew (244 – 45)

Lewis was "the best read man of his generation, one who read everything and remembered everything he read

The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice!

All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense.

Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.

The more that I learn, the more sure I am that I have very much to learn...

Nothing in the world matter more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that.

Making an economy more productive (sensibly interpreted) in a sustainable fashion is not best served by obsessively activating people and locking them up in jobs that they hate doing and from which they learn nothing.

Encountering gender apartheid and waged slavery shook me to my roots more than half a century ago in Afghanistan. Oh, the women of Afghanistan, the women of the Muslim world. I was no feminist -- but now, thinking back, I see how much I learned there, how clearly their condition taught me to see gender discrimination anywhere and, above all, taught me to see how cruel oppressed women could be to each other. They taught me about women everywhere.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Et puis quoi, qu'importe la culture ? Quand il a écrit Hamlet, Molière avait-il lu Rostand ? Non.

La culture, c'est comme la confiture, moins on en a, plus on l'étale.

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that, he said desperately. But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked. What's wrong with being natural? he demanded. Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all.

But I've been dead much longer than I lived, and I have had the chance to educate myself in that that I lacked in life. I wasn't stupid when I lived, just ignorant. There's a lot to learn, simply by watching the follies of the living.

But I have so much to learn!" Zane cried plaintively. "Then get to it, Death," she said, closing the door behind her.