Quotes About Learning

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

"It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there."

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

aber was weiß man schon, solange man keine Kinder hat? Nichts weiß man, man wandert mit anderen Ahnungslosen durch ein Tal der Ahnungslosigkeit, ich wusste früher auch nicht, wie das sein könnte, ich habe nicht gefragt, was tun diese Mütter den ganzen Tag?

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

Consuming life cannot be other than a life of rapid learning, but it also needs to be a life of swift forgetting.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

Ignorance is no obstacle to advancement, matter of fact in some cases it is quite an advantage.

Where did you learn that smile? Have you been practicing in front of a holo of Han Solo? Mara to Luke

The first trick to maintaining focus is to get enough sleep: ten hours of sleep each night while you are studying new ideas. Before dismissing this idea, try it. You will wake up refreshed and ready to learn. Caffeine is not a substitute for sleep.

If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subjects than others of your standing, reflect that you have had greater opportunites of seeing the world, and obtaining a knowledge of Mankind than any of your cotemporarys, that you have never wanted a Book, but it has been supplied you, that your whole time has been spent in the company of Men of Literature and Science. How unpardonable would it have been in you, to have been a Blockhead.

Suffering is the finest teacher," said an old friend long ago. "It teaches you details.

The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.

These three ways correspond in our tradition to the main aspects of religious existence: worship, learning, and action. The three are one, and we must go all three ways to reach the one destination. For this is what Israel discovered: the God of nature is the God of history, and the way to know Him is to do His will. To

It is the Bible that enables us to know the Bible.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.