Learning Limits Quotes

Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

What men need is, as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a basis for action; give them more and it may become injurious. One knows people who are as heavy and stupid from undigested learning .

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

You're never going to learn everything.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Whatever work I do, I tend to do it fast and accurately, but when it comes to fields that I don't know about well, I prefer to just listen.

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

We cannot learn men from books.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.

I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.