Nagarjuna Quotes

Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Whoever does not love knowledge, then there is no good in him.

Few men have ever had a more labor saving contempt for learning.

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

No man is the wiser for his learning

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.