learning
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; the doing must demand thinking and learning naturally results.”
“We only think when we are confronted with problems.”
“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”
“He who would be wise must first learn to doubt.”
“Without tact you can learn nothing.”
“Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.”
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought ignorant or stupid in extraneous matters.”
“If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
“It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
“If you would improve, be content to be thought ignorant in matters of no consequence.”
“It is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“Learn that which is already known to others, and then by the light and methods which belong to science … learn for ourselves and for others.”
“There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.”
“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready.”
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.”
“We never sit anything out.”