Quotes About Learning

Man should accept that he does not know very much at all and knows even less, when he places barriers to truth.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

There was no ambition to be famous, no desire to have pieces played by famous orchestras, no secret wish for commissions or prizes or for being "taken up" by prominent art lovers. I simply hoped I could learn to do something well.

I am by nature a self-improver. I have read Gibbon, I have read Proust. I read the Old and New Testaments and most of Shakespeare. I studied French. I have meditated. I jogged. I learned to draw, using the right side of my brain.

Quiero estudiar, quiero aprender, quiero escribir. Tengo veintidós años. No sé nada. Nada fundamental. No sé lo que debería haber aprendido hace muchos años. Nadie me enseñó nada. Sé, en cambio, lo que debería saber mucho después. De allí que me sienta anciana y niña al mismo tiempo.

Uno no encontrará en sitio alguno nada que no haya llevado consigo. Para comprender que uno es un tonto no es necesario trasladarse a Katmandú.

El error está permitido, siempre que se cometa una sola vez y dentro de una búsqueda sincera de conocimiento. Ésa es la condición humana: el hombre busca el conocimiento

Cuando uno deja de obedecer los dictados universitarios, todos los enfoques tienen algo que ofrecer." -Metageneaología-

Cuando se quiere agregar agua a un vaso que está totalmente lleno, primero es necesario vaciarlo. Así una mente llena de opiniones y especulaciones no puede aprender, debemos vaciarla para que se de una condición de apertura

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.