Wolfgang Tillmans Quotes

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I have studied the situation gravely and I think I understand it well.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend to read easy reading/populist-type books, but I don't feel like I'm learning enough.

I like to read and understand.

I look at every book as a new learning opportunity.

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.