“The more I learn about history, the more savage I find it was.”

“It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.”

“The more we learn about volcanoes, the more we learn about the earth. Learning about the earth is more important than it has ever been.”

“Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.”

“…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)”

“I prefer concrete things and I don't like to learn more about abstract stuff than I absolutely have to.”

“The more I study, the more I learn and absorb, the more I realize how truly little I know.”

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”

“Like many others, I came to philosophy to study matters of life and death, and was taught that professionalization required forgetting them. The more I learned, the more I grew convinced of the opposite: the history of philosophy was indeed animated by the questions that drew us there”

“I have learned more from Ezra Pound about writing than from anyone else.”