Quotes about Learning

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.

Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from them, make more mistakes and learn anew. They must taste defeat as well as success, and discover how to live with each. Time and action are the teachers.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance.

Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing

a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

Are you well up in your Jean Paul?

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.