4,503 Quotes About Learning

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

Modernity is the progressive conquering of fear through the testing of assumptions; while Primitivity is the continued accommodation of fear and unwillingness to test assumptions".

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

We are oversupplied with people and books that make us know more, but are undersupplied with those that make us think and live better.

In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You

A well-rounded person should be open to both science and spirituality. We can learn from both. One without the other, it seems to me, is insufficient to appreciating and understanding our place in the Universe.

Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.

Let your life challenge your sacred existence.

If we try to make children fantasize, these fake fantasies, like the ready-made fantasies of TV, will in time drive out most of their true fantasies, the ones that come from their experience in the world and their need to make sense of it and become at home in it.