Quotes About Learning

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû'ah).

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

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

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

Education is understanding relationships.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.