Quotes About Learning

Quelli che s'innamorano della pratica senza la scienza, sono come i nocchieri che entrano in naviglio senza timone o bussola, che mai hanno certezza dove si vadano. Sempre la pratica dev'essere edificata sopra la buona teorica, della quale la prospettiva è guida e porta, e senza questa nulla si fa bene.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. And if thou understandest that old age is fed with wisdom, so conduct thyself in the days of thy youth that sustenance may not be lacking to thy old age.

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Learning never exhaust the mind

Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

L'esperienza è il solo insegnante in cui possiamo confidare.

Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy – on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

Practice must always be founded on sound theory.

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

InconÈ™tientul are dou? feÈ›e, deoarece ne protejeaz? de tr?irea conÈ™tient? a amintirilor dureroase È™i a experienÈ›elor asociate acestora È™i, în acelaÈ™i timp, ne împiedic? s? accept?m È™i s? înv???m din acele experienÈ›e.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

Learn to say I don't know when you really DON'T know.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours. from The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

That's the reason they're called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.

But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations? -Alice in Wonderland

the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.