Quotes About Learning

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable

Mi joven amigo, mucho me complace vuestra ignorancia; es tan valiosa como la doctrina de los demás: al menos no vivís en el error y, si bien no estáis instruido, sois susceptible de estarlo. Vuestro natural, la franqueza de vuestro carácter, la rectitud de vuestro espíritu, me agradan.

Me agrada tu ignorancia, joven camarada, tiene más valor que la doctrina de los demás: tú, al menos no estás en el error, y si no eres instruido, eres capaz de llegar a serlo.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

Reading in no way obliges us to understand.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Everything comes from experience; yet not from actual experience, reiterated by each individual with each generation, but instead from experience accumulated by the entire ancestry of the species in the course of its evolution.

As much as anything, getting an education cured me of my complex about not having an education

I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.

To teach what one doesn't know is simply to ask questions about what one doesn't know.

The government does not owe the people education for the simple reason that one does not owe the people what it can take for itself. And education is like liberty: it is not given, it is taken.

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Înainte de a combate moartea, trebuie s? înve?i s? tr?ie?ti.

A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

Seek Knowledge and adorn it with forbearance and dignity. Be humble to those whom you teach and to those from whom you learn. Don't be tyrannical in your teaching conduct, for you will forfeit that to which you are entitled to (the reward) on account of it.

Precision, accuracy and pondering in wisdom and sciences, will nourish and develop a person's brain.

There are two kinds of scholars: those who act on their knowledge, these are the saved ones; and those who do not put into practise what they know, these are led to their downfall.

The person who associates with scholars, will have his reputation exalted.

It makes no sense at all if people consider the one who lacks knowledge and science as a prosperous person.