To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
To learn one must be humble.
To learn is not to know; there are the learners a the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.[Apprendre n’est pas savoir ; il y a les sachants et les savants : c’est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c’est la philosophie qui fait les autres.]
Things take indeed a wondrous turn when learned men do stoop to learn.[Das hat die Welt nicht oft gesehn Daß Lehrer selbst ans Lernen gehn.]
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge — that is everywhere.
There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.
