Quotes About Learning

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Chi non conosce le lingue straniere non conosce nulla della propria.

Well, that's Philosophy I've read, And Law and Medicine, and I fear Theology, too, from A to Z; Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. And so I sit, poor silly man No wiser now than when I began.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

Într-adev?r ?tiu multe, dar a? vrea s? ?tiu totul.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is such an agreeable feeling to be busy with something one is only half-competent to do that nobody should criticize the dilettante for taking up an art he will never learn, or blame the artist who leaves the territory of his own art for the pleasure of trying himself in a neighbouring one.

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren sich weiß Rechenschaft zu geben, bleib im Dunkeln unerfahren, mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

The art is long, life is short

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.