Quotes about Learning
in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.
— Dorothy Sayers
Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster-shells. We surround ourselves with 'em, and then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development.
— Dorothy Sayers
The whole of the Trivium was, in fact, intended to teach the pupil the proper use of the tools of learning.
— Dorothy Sayers
Example is the best precept.
— Aesop
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
— Alain de Botton
Pilates is amazing. It makes you conscious of how you have been doing something incorrectly for so long, even something as simple as just standing there.
— Jim James
Basically, life isn't just about eating and partying - we need to figure out unique ways in which we can add to our curiosity levels, besides satisfying the wanderer in us.
— Varun Sharma
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson