Quotes About Learning

At his old school, they taught him a song to remember all its phases. Sometimes he'll sing it for us at dinner, but only if we do not request it.

Can I ask you something?' Will says and I say 'Sure, ask me something.' 'How do you know all this?' 'I'm a fucking librarian

There's nothing wrong with being wrong.

corner of the Empire and touched on the Naimans. These Uigurs are famous, at least among scholars, as having been the most devoted to learning of all Turkish nations; from them it was that the Mongols received an alphabet and their earliest instruction. The Idikut, or ruler, of the Uigurs acknowledged the Gurkhan as overlord, but the yearly tribute which he paid, and the daily

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

All the social ills that law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to learn and grow.

Schooling, education and knowledge are not the same thing. One is not a natural result of the other. People grow in knowledge when they learn truths. Teaching and schooling are meaningless when students do not seek wisdom. They are likewise meaningless when that which is taught is not wisdom. In order to learn, people must thirst for knowledge. Force and compulsion cannot accomplish this.

This is an old problem: Knowledge calls for more knowledge,

Above all, the system had prized integrity above intellect; 'learning and cultivation of the mind come last, character, heart, courage, strength and physical address are in the first rank'.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, "What if the world was round?

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Every schoolboy knows it.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

A mind willing to learn deserves commendation even when it has no teacher. What is of importance to me is not what you find but what you seek to find. Wax is soft and easy to mould even where the hands of craftsman and modeller are wanting to work it.

The whole truth is not taught in a single passage: we must always bear in mind the exact point of an illustration.

self-confidence is the worst of teachers—but from the church's most famous writers.

Exchange your love of necklaces and of gems and of silk dresses for earnestness in studying the scriptures.