Quotes About Learning

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

Experience is only half of experience

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

And here, poor fool! with all my loreI stand! no wiser than before.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

We really only learn from books we cannot judge. The author of a book we could really judge ought surely to be learning from us.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

When scholars study a thing, they strive To kill it first, if its alive; Then they have the parts and they've lost the whole For the link that's missing was the living soul.

I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before:

Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.