Quotes About Learning

Time in its aging course teaches all things.

Write what I tell you in your book of memory.

Old age that's quick to learn is always young.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

The Astronomer AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?

Servants don't know a good master till they have served a worse.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

The Sages promise us that anyone who studies the Torah will derive spiritual purification from his studies (Berachos 16a).

Do not malign the words of a sage even if they seem trivial, for they contain the loftiest wisdom.

I cannot live without reading.

If your mind is happy, then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth us all there is. It's like when you've learned how to read - you can then read anywhere you go.

curiosity is the key to creativity

I also discovered how much I could learn from listening to other people's stories—even people who at first blush didn't seem like the kind of people you could learn much of anything from

I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don't allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it

We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.

How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.