“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
“You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before”
“Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?”
“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
“Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something”
“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”