Quotes About Learning

Wearing all that weightOf learning lightly like a flower.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

We all know Aesop's fable of the dog who dropped a piece of meat to grasp at its reflection in the water. We must not, however, judge too severely of error. In the initial stages of mental progress, error in symbolic reference is the discipline which promotes imaginative freedom.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself

Impara tutto ciò che ti è possibile dagli errori degli altri. Non avrai tempo a sufficienza per farli tutti.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Both flame and spider enrich themselves by understanding the natures of their prey; and fly and moth return again and again until this is accomplished.

What we know instinctively," she continued, "is simply what we are trying to remember. Knowledge is memory.