Quotes About Learning

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.

Todos somos muy ignorantes. Lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos las mismas cosas.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

The important thing is never to stop questioning.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Did you know: The only source of knowledge is experience

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.

The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.

It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.

ACADEMIC CHAIRS ARE MANY, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

True genius never says he know what he is doing

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.