Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

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.

I like to read and understand.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

I do think observing is important in learning.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?