Quotes About Learning

Ich war kein Lehrer, sondern ein Lerner. Ich wollte nicht lehren, sondern lernen. Ich hatte Lehrer werden wollen, um möglichst lange ein Schüler bleiben zu können. Ich wollte Neues, immer wieder Neues aufnehmen und um keinen Preis Altes, immer wieder Altes weitergeben. Ich war hungrig, ich war kein Bäcker. Ich war wissensdurstig, ich war kein Schankwirt.

It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

Teadmine ei tee kunagi valu. Valu teeb vaid "enne" ja "pärast".

What ever came of the good scholars in the world? —In the hothouse of the school they do enjoy a short semblance of life, but only the more surely to sink back afterward into mediocrity and insignificance. The world has been bettered only by the bad scholars.

Habit is the explanation of why we seem to forget things so quickly.

C'est vraiment honteux d'aller et venir sur la terre et de ne presque rien savoir d'elle... Pas même quelques noms.

un adevarat medic aproape niciodata nu cere ajutorul altui medic. Pentru ca sunt dureros de constienti de cat de putin stie cineva sa vindece bolnavii.

You don't necessarily need to travel to be educated. …You learn a bit in school, a lot from books, and even more from life. …And from the stories of those who have traveled!

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

Mackworth turned to Conner and said, "I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair." "So did I," Conner replied, "but I've learnt a devil of a lot in the last five minutes.

I don't see how in the course of having to make endless decisions one can avoid some mistakes.

my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What

the queen a copy of Henry Watson Fowler's famous 1926 guide to the English language, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage.

I'm not naturally tough. I've learned to be tough through rubbing elbows with the police.

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

never has there been an age in which so little knowledge is securely possessed, so little a part of the common understanding.

Even a mole may instruct a philosopher in the art of digging.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.