Learning Quotes

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it" "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours" "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil." "Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements." "The child who concentrates is immensely happy." "The first essential for the child’s development is concentration." "If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel—as far and as widely as possible Sleep on floors if you have to Find out how other people live and eat and cook Learn from them—wherever you go" "Once you learn to read you will be forever free" "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education" "Read in order to live" "Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world" "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry" "Learning is like chasing after the horizon there is no end."