| Quote | Author | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. |
Henry Brooks Adams | 1838 – 1918 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Grasp the subject, the words will follow. |
Marcus Porcius Cabo | c. 234 – 149 BC | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
The pursuit of knowledge, is a worthy objective in its own right and needs no external validation. |
Gene Rosellini | ||
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! |
Richard P. Feynman | 1918 – 1988 | |
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music. |
Roald Dahl | 1916 – 1990 | Matilda |
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. |
Mark Twain | 1835 – 1910 | |
I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him. |
Galileo Galilei | 1564 – 1642 | Attributed |
That which does not kill us, makes us stronger. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844 – 1900 | |
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. |
Hal Abelson | born 1947 | |
The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible. |
Sydney Smith | 1771 – 1845 | |
The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. |
Alvin Toffler | born 1928 | |
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. |
Berenice Abbott | 1898 – 1991 | |
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself. |
Galileo Galilei | 1564 – 1642 | Attributed |
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. |
Leonardo da Vinci | 1452 – 1519 | |
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. |
Edith Nesbitt | 1858 – 1924 | |
Young people -it is obvious -cannot achieve such a relationship, but they can, if they understand their life properly, grow up slowly to such happiness and prepare themselves for it. They must not forget, when they love, that they are beginners, bunglers of life, apprentices in love- must learn love, and that like all learning wants peace, patience, and composure. |
Rainer Maria Rilke | 1875 – 1926 | |
A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others – not by simply taking over another’s opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticise his ideas and by gladly criticising the ideas of others. |
Karl Popper | 1902 – 1994 | |
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. |
Leonardo da Vinci | 1452 – 1519 | |
Analogies decide nothing, that is true, but they can make one feel more at home. |
Sigmund Freud | 1856 – 1939 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master. |
Leonardo da Vinci | 1452 – 1519 | |
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. |
Louisa May Alcott | 1832 – 1888 | As Quoted In: Shapiro, F. (2006). The Yale book of quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press. |
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. |
J. K. Rowling | born 1965 | |
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. |
William E. Deming | 1900 – 1993 | |
Learning never exhausts the mind. |
Leonardo da Vinci | 1452 – 1519 | |
There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting. |
Bill Bryson | born 1951 | A Short History of Nearly Everything |