Quotes About Learning

apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants : c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. (p. 183)

Abbé Faria: "... to learn is not to know; there are learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other. Edmond Dantès: "But can I not learn philosophy as well as other things?" "My son, philosophy, as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.

If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.

Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other. But cannot one learn philosophy? Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important." "You

So is it true, what our enemies say about us: nothing learned, nothing forgotten? (Talleyrand)

Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other. But cannot one learn philosophy? Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.

I found that with one hundred and fifty well- chosen books, a man possesses a complete summary of all human knowledge, or at least all that a man need really know.

Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other." "But

If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.

Leren is nog geen weten. Er zijn weters en er zijn geleerden. Het geheugen maakt de eerste soort, de wijsheid de tweede.

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other." "But cannot one learn philosophy?

Aprender no es saber: de aquí nacen los eruditos y los sabios: la memoria hace a los unos, y la filosofía a los otros.

Apprendere non vuol dire sapere; vi sono i sapienti e i savi. È la memoria che fa gli uni, è la filosofia che fa gli altri».

S? înveÅ£i nu înseamn? s? ÅŸtii. Exist? oameni care ÅŸtiu ÅŸi oameni care cunosc. Unii sunt ajutaÅ£i de memorie, ceilalÅ£i de filosofie. - Dar filosofia nu se poate înv??a? -Filosofia nu se înva??. Filosofia e suma tuturor ÅŸtiinÅ£elor pe care un geniu le pune in aplicare.

I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess. Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.