Learning Quotes - Page 59

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

You keep learning all the time.

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

I learn by going where I have to go.

Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.