Quotes About Learning

The academic community is an attractive working environment,

we use math not because we're smart, but because we aren't smart enough.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Community as forgiveness . . . Too many people come into community to find something, to belong to a dynamic group, to discover a life which approaches the ideal. If we come into community without knowing that the reason we come is to learn to forgive and be forgiven seven times seventy-seven times, we will soon be disappointed.

have learned that the process of teaching and learning, of communication, involves movement, back and forth: the one who is healed and the one who is healing constantly change places. As we begin to understand ourselves, we begin to understand others. It is part of the process of moving from idealism to reality, from the sky to the earth. We do not have to be perfect or to deny our emotions.

Examinations are even entertaining, if you know the right answers.

You should see the way this college is studying!

I am learning so many new things every day that when each Saturday night comes I look back on the Sallie of last Saturday night, amazed at her ignorance.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

commencement sans fin. Tant qu'il y aura des livres, personne, jamais, n'aura le dernier mot. Belle-Ile, le 23 juillet 1989.

ceux qui prétendaient n'exposer que des idées. Non : Platon était un auteur de théâtre ; le jeune Hegel avait écrit le plus exaltant des romans d'apprentissage

Books knew more than you did, as a rule.

It's important to clarify that a library is not necessarily made up of books that we've read, or even that we will eventually read. They should be books that we can read. Or that we may read. Even if we never do.

Fiecare nou? tehnologie impune dobândirea unui nou sistem de reflexe, care ne cere noi eforturi, È™i asta la r?stimpuri din ce în ce mai scurte.

A È™ti anumite lucruri pe de rost îÈ›i confer? capacitatea unei înÈ›elegeri superioare.

CunoÈ™tinÈ›ele sunt cele care se adun? în capul nostru f?r? s? ne fie întotdeauna de vreun folos. CunoaÈ™terea e transformarea unor cunoÈ™tinÈ›e într-o experien?? de via??.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.

The mind is an activity, not a repository.

Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to others one speck of the vast unknown.

Let us see but a little at a time and see that little plainly; that is the way to acquire substantial and lasting knowledge.

Juan gave Bones the most admiring look he'd bestowed on him yet. You talked her into going without panties all these years? Madre de Dios, now that's impressive. I could learn a great deal from you, amigo.