Quotes About Learning

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life. He may then perhaps do a little research of his own and make a very few discoveries which are passed on to other men. From this point of view the search for new techniques must be regarded as carried out by the human community as a whole, rather than by individuals.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

Op zijn twintigste is iedereen intelligent; met de tijd wordt het steeds moeilijker om intelligent te blijven. Maar misschien leer je dan ter compensatie om gelukkig te zijn.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Information is not knowledge.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Play is the highest form of research.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The only source of knowledge is experience.