Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If I am through learning, I am through.

A Princeton education sets you up for life: you have learned how to learn, and at a time when technology has changed everything, you will constantly have to learn.

I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

You can't change what you don't understand.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

How slowly one comes to understand anything!

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.