Quotes on learning
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Bronowski, Jacob
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
Scott, Dana Stewart
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Alexander, Lloyd
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Huxley, Thomas
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Einstein, Albert
Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Bedford, Clay P.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Adler, Mortimer
It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
Fischer, Martin H.
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
Wells, H.G.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Eldridge, Paul
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Vonnegut, Kurt
I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.
Fischer, Martin H.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
Proverb, Chinese
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Fischer, Martin H.