Quotes About Learning

A reproach given with great kindness is often well received, whereas when given with sharpness it produces no results. Thus Christ tells us: "Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.

It has been said that if a little learning withdraws a person from religion, great learning brings him back to it.956

Thus talent sometimes wishes to correct genius, as if the eaglet wished to teach the eagle to fly.

The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever

I came to realize that my path to knowledge would not lead me to libraries, professors, universities, and studies. My path to knowledge was through living life and experiencing reality. I could learn plenty secondhand, but nothing was ever to surpass the experiences I had in the wilderness. All my knowledge of social, scentific, and religious issues has been acquired through personal experience.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

Choose only one master — Nature.

Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Ils liront demain dans leur journal ce qu'ils doivent en savoir...

Ils venaient de prendre conscience de l'immensité de leur ignorance.

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.

reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts

Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation

To attain the truth in life, we must discard all the ideas we were taught.

And even though we have read all the arguments of Plato and Aristotle, we shall never become philosophers if we are unable to make a sound judgement on matters which come up for discussion; in this case what we would seem to have learnt would not be science but history.

the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.

Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such large volumes, it would take longer to read those books than we have to live in this life and more effort to select the useful things than to find them oneself

But as soon as I had finished my course of study, at which time it is usual to be admitted to the ranks of the well educated, I completely changed my opinion, for I found myself bogged down in so many doubts and errors, that it seemed to me that having set out to become learned, I had derived no benefit from my studies, other than that of progressively revealing to myself how ignorant I was.

it appears to me that I have discovered many truths more useful and more important than all I had before learned, or even had expected to learn.