Quotes About Learning

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

The Court bows to the lessons of experience and the force of better reasoning, recognizing that the process of trial and error, so fruitful in the physical sciences, is appropriate also in the judicial function.

A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

You [Virgil] were the lamp that led me from that night. You led me forth to drink Parnassian waters;

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery."

Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze, die er nog niet in staan, zijn merkwaardig.

And yet, unlearn we must, for technology relentlessly transforms the playing field, changing not just the answers but the questions as well.

I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

don't be afraid to make mistakes; they are just the stepping-stones to success.

Cap truly believed there was nothing harder than being a kid. You were always an alien trying to learn the earth rules.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it; and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so.

A love for good books is one of the best safeguards a man can have.