Quotes About Learning

Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Logic is the necessary product of intelligence and sincerity. It cannot be learned. It is the child of a clear head and a good heart.

Lincoln never finished his education. To the night of his death he was a pupil, a learner, an inquirer, a seeker after knowledge. You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might

There is not the slightest danger of women becoming too intellectual or knowing too much. Neither is there any danger of men knowing too much. At least, I know of no men who are in immediate peril from that source.

Optimumque est, ut volgo dixere, aliena insania frui. And the best plan is, as the popular saying was, to profit by the folly of others. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2

We aren't our mistakes. It's what we do -about- the mistake that shows who we are. [Dr. Margot Bamborough to Gloria Conti]

No stranger to trouble myself, I am learning to care for the unhappy. Virgil, Aeneid,

Had she learned how to compose her face into its most photogenic arrangement, to project emotion so beautifully? Or had she simply been a pellucid surface through which her feelings naturally shone?

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain

Time cannot erase the sadnesses of life, but it can help us to learn from them the hardest lesson of all: that even one's mistakes are enriching.

not say and Max had known better than to ask.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.

For every question, there is a book.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

Few fallacies are more dangerous or easier to fall into than that by which, having read a given book, we assume that we will continue to know its contents permanently, or having mastered a discipline in the past, we assume that we control it in the present. Philosophically speaking, "to learn" is a verb with not legitimate tense.

A monstrous fallacy of time, so ingrained that it is almost automatic, is the idea that we necessarily learn more and more about important human experiences as time passes.

A 2018 meta-analysis of sixty-four earlier studies involving more than five thousand subjects confirms that students learn more effectively if they are asked to explain a concept to themselves than if it is presented to them in other ways. The included studies compared learning outcomes from prompted self-explanation to those produced by a variety of other instructional approaches, including lectures by instructors, solving problems, studying worked problems, and studying text.17

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.