Quotes About Learning

In some matters, he said, it is better to be intellectually uncertain rather than superficially sure. This will still leave us with a great deal to be certain about, while maintaining a humility to learn.

Realization comes when we honestly accept the mistakes of the past and that automatically builds the responsibility that will prevent us from repeating those same mistakes.

History is not tied to slogans and ideals and reform movements. It is to rid ourselves of notions of doctrines and movements and look at the incidents of the past as they actually happened. And this can't happen unless we allow our minds to be cleared of the illusions created by the present.

Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you're aware of the depths of your own ignorance.

if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

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Make mistakes -- just don't keep making the same goddamn ones.

If you get to live your life over, make the same mistakes -- only sooner.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

From birds she learned how to sing; from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence.

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

Knowledge was never simply born in the human mind; it was always reborn. The relaying of wisdom from one age to the next, this cycle of rebirths: this was wisdom.

Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.

for to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy.

In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat.

At last,' Padma says with satisfaction, 'you've learned how to tell things really fast.

If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Sometimes it is necessary to touch bottom in order to know which way is up; to go a long distance down the wrong road before you know the right way

Maybe the little sahib is copying us—blinking when we blink." And Amina: "We'll blink in turn and watch.

And all the time she held on to me; like a mother protecting her child, she shielded me from my family. (Who were learning … as I was … that they were not …)

When we are born, we are not automatically human beings. We have to learn how to be human beings. And some of us get there and some of us don't.

But what, after all, can a baby do except swallow all of it and hope to make sense of it later?