Quotes About Learning

Primero hay que educar el corazón y después la cabeza".

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It's the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.

There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all sophomores .

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

The person who tasted the darkness of ignorance realized that science is light.