Quotes about Learning

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

A burnt child loves the fire.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits?

There are those who act without knowing; I will have none of this. To hear a lot, choose the good, and follow it, to see a lot and learn to recognize it: this is next knowledge.