Wolfgang Tillmans Quotes

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

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. Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

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.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

You learn from everything.

Rereading, we find a new book.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Experience is a great teacher.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

This life is a process of learning.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Learning is finding out what you already know.