Quotes about Learning

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.