Quotes About Learning

She would push and push on that one question until a crack formed in the wall of her ignorance.

Children are soft and supple, open-minded and unpretentious.

By my final years at primary school I had realised that literature was more than just an ordinary pleasure. I could tell that reading opened entirely different worlds before me...

Knowledge that is grown only on the outside changes nothing inside a man, or merely changes him on the surface, as one garment is changed for another. But he who learns by taking things inside himself undergoes constant transformation, because he incorporates what he learns into his being.

Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmna?amy j? jak moje warzywa czy jab?onki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion.

Ten, kto nie nauczy? si? mówi?, zostanie na zawsze uwi?ziony w pu?apce.

During the first year of their married life, there were surprises for him, gentle shocks almost every day, but nothing shattering. For instance, he was amazed to discover how little education a girl can absorb, and go through a high school and two years of normal school besides. Why, Stella didn't know Thackeray from George Eliot!

Let school-masters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Some men never recover from education.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

Upon this point a page of history is worth a volume of logic.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.