Quotes about Learning

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.