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Learning Quotes
"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."
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"There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you."
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"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."
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"The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first."
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"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
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"It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher."
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"Knowledge deepens with experience."
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"When you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The most important thing is recognizing, accepting and learning the lessons out of the lessons. just ponder!"
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"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
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"It's easy to count other people's mistakes. Make your own if you can."
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"Learning comes from books, penetration of a mystery from suffering."
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"You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort."
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"Learning how to transcend consciousness to a higher consciousness is a blissful journey and the ultimate essence of life."
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"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
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"I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction."
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"Vice can be learnt even without a teacher."
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"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
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"Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
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"[A]t bottom it is the same with traveling as with reading. How often do we complain that we cannot remember one thousandth part of what we read! In both cases, however, we may console ourselves with the reflection that the things we see and read make an impression on the mind before they are forgotten, and so contribute to its formation and nurture."
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"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
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"Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness."
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"Don't be an idiot - Idiots repeat as for my opinion to repeat is a useless process better check out one book it's not possible to learn everything and use everything it's insane. But you can do one thing, focus on the important stuff which have impressed you, use them - delete the book, make an essay and think on this few days you can think and check out some other books, videos and so on and so on... If you didn't get it, okay then listen again until you get it... It's imporntant to don't repeat and to understand it!"
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"Life gives us experiences, we are learners."
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"No practice exists in isolation."
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"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."
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"Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning."
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