Quotes About Learning

can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath

Gerçek bilgelik hiçbir ÅŸey bilmediÄŸini bilmekte yatar. -Sokrates

es un libro de los que leen para sentirse inteligentes, o de los que fingen no haber leído nunca para seguir pareciendo inteligentes?

La única manera de aprender es vivir.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Even these bad experiences are serving a purpose, don't you see?

We are shaped more by our failures than our successes (paraphrase)

You could have just told me I wasn't a bad cat owner. Why didn't you?' 'Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

She learned that undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

the past is important to learn from, but not to live in. The future is important for your direction but not to be so consumed in that you can't enjoy the present.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.

Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

I don't know anything about computers. I don't even know how often to change the oil.

In 1850, there were only eight graduate students in the entire United States.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.