Quotes About Learning

I have studied these things - you have not.

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis ) love Mathematicks.

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - From a letter to Robert Hooke dated February 5th, 1676. The metaphor was first recorded in 1159 by John of Salisbury and attributed to Bernard of Chartres: Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.

If I had seen further than others, it's because I stood upon the shoulders of giants.

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants

N?u tôi nhìn ???c xa h?n, ?y là vì tôi ??ng trên vai nh?ng ng??i kh?ng l?

Wenn ich weiter sehen konnte, so deshalb, weil ich auf den Schultern von Riesen stand.

Wenn ich weiter als andere gesehen habe, dann nur deshalb, weil ich auf der Schulter von Giganten stand.

N?u nh? tôi ?ã nhìn ???c xa h?n thì ?ó là b?i vì tôi ?ã ???c ??ng trên vai c?a nh?ng ng??i kh?ng l?

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is the ocean.

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

You should therefore contrive and practice some proper methods to acquaint yourself with your own ignorance, and to impress your mind with a deep and painful sense of the low and imperfect degrees of your present knowledge, that you may be incited with labor and activity to pursue after greater measures.

No man is obliged to learn and know every thing; this can neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible; yet all persons are under some obligation to improve their own understanding; otherwise it will be a barren desert, or a forest overgrown with weeds and brambles. Universal ignorance or infinite errors will overspread the mind which is utterly neglected and lies without any cultivation. Skill

Once a day....call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

Whereas the intuitive children like to learn by insight, the sensing children prefer to learn by familiarization.

Ein Leben voller Reisen, Abenteuer und Gefahr, Sehen und Lernen, verherrlicht durch die Liebe - das wünsche ich mir

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.