Learning Quotes
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.
Not by rituals and resolutions, nor by much learning, nor by celibacy, nor even by meditation can you find the supreme, immortal joy of nirvana until you extinguish your self-will.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.
No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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