Quotes About Learning

This is how great knowledge dies, on bookshelves in plain sight.

The acquisition of knowledge, the sheer pleasure of finding things out, is the greatest gift in life.

the primary purpose of college is to become a learner.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.

It is easier to study books and "objective facts" than to develop one's subjective life, senses, perceptive abilities, and method of thinking.

neuroplasticity', a term which takes into account the fact that the brain evolves continuously in relation to our experience, and that a particular training, such as learning a musical instrument or a sport, can bring about a profound change.

la suffisance est l'apanage du sot, l'humilité est la vertu de celui qui mesure tout ce qui lui reste à apprendre et le chemin qu'il doit encore parcourir.

Happiness is a skill, a manner of being, but skills must be learned. As the Persian proverb has it: "Patience turns the mulberry leaf into satin.

Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

I was born with a reading list that never ends.

I was born with a reading list, I will never finish.

I was born with a book list i will never finish

Somos de tal naturaleza que nada nos lleva tan lejos y tan alto como los impulsos de nuestros errores

I do not believe that what one gives to the sciences is taken from philosophy.

All theory is at the same time a practice...The link between theory and practice is not one of linear dependency. It is a circular relationship where envelopment is reciprocal.

In a unified whole of this kind, the learned parts of a language have an immediate value as a whole, and progress is made less by addition and juxtaposition than by the internal articulation of a function which is in its own way already complete.

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

Culture constantly impregnates the newborn from the first day,

Deepen the notion of gnosia through that of praxia. It's a matter of grasping mind in its nascent state.

Far from being limited to the first years, language acquisition is coextensive with the very exercise of language.

Perhaps there are never any masters except after the fact and from afar.

The child's consciousness is different from the adult's both in content and organization. Children are not, as previously thought, 'miniature adults.' Thus, contrary to the negative account, the child's consciousness is not identical to the adult's in everything except for its incompleteness and imperfection. The child possess another kind of equilibrium than the adult kind; therefore, we must treat the child's consciousness as a positive phenomenon.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.