Theodore Zeldin Quotes

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

I take books on learning to bed - music theory, colour theory - and usually my brain thinks, 'Um, I think I'd rather turn off,' than learn something.

I definitely feel like I'm a smarter player than when I first entered the League.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks it own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

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

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.