learning Quotes

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

A home without books is a body without soul.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.