Quotes About Learning

History was a crystal ball that told as much about the future as it did about the past.

When Albert Einstein was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, an eager young newspaper reporter approached him one day, notebook in hand. "Well, Professor Einstein," he asked, "what's new in science?" Einstein looked at him with his deep, soft eyes and replied, "Oh? Have you already written about all the old science?

Orthodox Judaism does not place undue emphasis on hellfire and damnation, nor are children specially pressured to search their souls for sin. But the priorities of a cheder education were anything but material. Read, read, read. Study, study, study. These were the objectives of school — and of life itself.

I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.

From night problems we learned one lasting lesson: when a map and a compass come into contact with a second lieutenant, prepare yourself for confusion. Throughout

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Youth is wholly experimental.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.

What the continents had in common was far less important than what was different. To be successful on the peaks it was more important to learn intuitively and adapt to the new cultures and climbing conditions, than to ascend relying on past experience.