Rene Descartes Quotes

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

Educate yourself as much as you can with life. Just go out there.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

No one but people like me can understand the importance of education.

Boy, when you come to study something, and you come to understand it - you know, even if it's just a little discovery that you make, and you come to understand it on your own, it feels it's like the greatest high. It's like you just have found some incredibly secretive thing about nature.

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

The truth will lead me to all.