We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
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 make a success of humanity, we must profit by the lessons of those below us in the animal kingdom.
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 learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
