Quotes About Learning

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise -- even in their own field.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

People think of education as something they can finish.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

People would ask him what a Gobelin was, why the Jacobins had betrayed Robespierre, how rayon was manufactured, what made a section caesarean. Grandfather had all the answers.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

At the center of all achievement is personal growth.

There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.