Quotes About Learning

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned—rather slowly; I wasn't too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it — once you can honestly say, 'I don't know', then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

one of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn—when they do, which isn't often—on their own, the hard way.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.

One can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.

Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.

A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future.

Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

Robert A. Heinlein

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

An Englishman and an Arab can learn to think each other's thoughts, in the other's language.

the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

Math is hard work and it occupies your mind—and it doesn't hurt to learn all you can of it, no matter what rank you are; everything of any importance is founded on mathematics.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

More depended on the student than on the school.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in "measurements" when he did not know what he was measuring.

That's the beauty about this business. You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me