Quotes About Learning

Therefore I will not 'learn' politics but let politics teach me.

To 'learn' history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events.

To truly "learn" history means to open your eyes and discover the forces that cause historical events to happen. The art of reading and of learning means remembering the important parts and forgetting the unimportant.

Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses.

Experience coupled with reading is strong medicine for the mind.

I know people who read endlessly, book after book, from cover to cover, and yet I would not call them 'well-read.' Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of sifting and organizing the information they have acquired. They don't have the ability to distinguish between what is useful and what is useless... Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

The art of reading and studying consists in this: Remember the essentials and forget what is inessential.

Pochi capiscono che l'insegnamento della storia non consiste nel mandare a memoria e recitare pappagallescamente date e fatti. Studiare la storia significa cercare le forze le quali conducono agli effetti che noi abbiamo davanti ai nostri occhi come fatti storici contemporanei. L'arte dell'imparare è ricordare l'essenziale e dimenticare il contingente

i will not "learn" politics but let politics teach me

purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of some dates and facts, that the student is not interested in knowing the exact date of a battle or the birthday of some marshal or other

I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits.

what are called the middle schools is still very unsatisfactory. Few teachers realize that the purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of some dates and facts, that the student is not interested in knowing the exact date of a battle or the birthday of some marshal or other, and not at all - or at least only very insignificantly - interested in knowing when the crown of his fathers was placed on the brow of some monarch. These are certainly not looked upon as important matters.

La llamada "intelectualidad" ve con infinito desdén a todo aquel que no pasó por las escuelas oficiales, para dejarse llenar de "sabiduría". Nunca se pregunta: ¿Qué sabe el individuo?, y sí: ¿Qué estudió? Para esas criaturas "cultas" más vale la cabeza hueca, bien protegida por títulos, que el muchacho más despierto.

Genialidade verdadeiramente é sempre inata, nunca fruto de educação ou estudos.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

We humans have grown cleverer but not wiser .

And realize that maybe they came into your life, not to be there forever, but to teach you something that will make you ready when forever finds you.

It is one of the many paradoxes of life he has come to accept, that learning the truth often requires acts of deception.

Niekuomet netik?kite, kad mums pražudo didel?s klaidos. Tai padaro mažos klaidel?s.

Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.