Quotes About Learning

Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

I'm still the girl who sat in the front of the class, ready to answer all the teacher's questions. I just lost most of the answers somewhere along the way. Dan didn't make

All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" was Elizabeth's guiding principle. She would not cultivate any motive for learning in her students besides curiosity, claiming that study for the sake of reward or in fear of punishment produced "superficial rather than profound" knowledge.

mind has no sex": there was no limit to what Sophia or any girl might learn. Yet gender did affect the uses of knowledge.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

I didn't know anything about anything. And the only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to, but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I've yet to learn.

Stink thought he knew everything now that he was starting second grade.

You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Everybody took me under their wing and didn't make fun of me for not knowing anything about theater.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

A country is not developed by constructing bridges, houses or roads but it is developed only if the brains of the people living in that country are developed, only if their level of culture is raised and only if an infinite importance is given to the science and to the knowledge!

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!

A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!

All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!