Quotes About Learning

The Greeks said that to marvel is the beginning of knowledge and where we cease to marvel we may be in danger of ceasing to know.

The mark of the educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and stood on the top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on the top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are nonetheless legitimate.

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

He learned to read the ocean by a cupful. He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as the destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

O que torna os maus poetas ainda piores é o facto de apenas lerem poetas (tal como os maus filósofos apenas lêem filósofos), quando eles tirariam um proveito bem maior de um livro de botânica ou de geologia. Só nos enriquecemos se frequentarmos disciplinas afastadas da nossa. Isto só é verdade, claro está, nos domínios em que grassa o eu.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine - the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile . . . That is not imagination. No, it kills it. . . . Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect . . . facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?

Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish tother from which.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.

Of all means to regeneration, Remorse is surely the most wasteful.

At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.

He loved poetry--science was merely an acquisition, which he laid aside when unobserved like his European dress...

Money's educational. It's far more educational than the things it buys.

There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books; I plead guilty to being such a chap. —Cecil Vyse

Viu que Durham [Clive] não só era esperto como tinha também uma mente ordenada e tranquila. Sabia o que queria ler, onde estava mais fraco, e até aquilo em que os professores o podiam ajudar. Não tinha nem a fé cega nos tutores e nas aulas, como Maurice e o seu grupo, nem o desprezo professado por Fetherstonhaugh. -------------------------------------------------- p.42, MAURICE, E.M.FORSTER

my job's Education. I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It's the only thing I do believe in.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

efforts not so much to acquire knowledge as to dispel a little of the darkness by which we and all our acquisitions are surrounded.

She had learnt the lingo, but only to speak to her servants, so she knew none of the politer forms and of the verbs only the imperative mood.