Quotes About Learning

The discovery of the art of reading is intimate, obscure, secret, almost impossible to explain.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scripture, I learnt in woods and fields. I have had no other masters than the beeches and the oaks." And

What I'm going to tell you now, he said, may sound incredible. But then, when you're not accustomed to history, most facts about the past DO seem incredible.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

62,400 repetitions make one truth.

No podemos salir de nuestra irracionalidad fundamental por medio del razonamiento. Lo único que podemos hacer es aprender el arte de ser irracional en forma racional.

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.

There were the years— years of childhood and innocence— when I had believed that carminative meant— well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life— a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend.

Alas, higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue, or higher political wisdom.

One must have some basis of experience on which to build an imagination.

how little one knows, really, about anything! And how grossly incurious one remains about so many things, what an enormous number of intrinsically astonishing achievements one merely takes for granted!

Quizá la más grande lección de la historia es que nadie aprendió las lecciones de la historia

Se prueba el pastel comiéndolo; no en el libro de cocina.

Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.

Moral education, ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.

La educación moral, que no debe nunca ser racional en modo alguno.

Experientia docet ? Experientia doesn't.

Books, he said—books. One reads so many, and one sees so few people and so little of the world. Great thick books about the universe and the mind and ethics. You've no idea how many there are. I must have read twenty or thirty tons of them in the last five years. Twenty tons of ratiocination. Weighted with that, one's pushed out into the world.