beginner quotes

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that†he isgoing to be a beginner all his life.

- R(obin) G(eorge) Collingwood
  New Leviathan, pt.1ch.1.

Delicatus ille est adhuc cui patria dulcis est. Fortis autem jam cui omne solum patria est, perfectus vero cui mundus totus exsilium est. He whose own homeland is sweet to him is a mere beginner. He to whom every soil is as his native land is strong. But he to whom the whole world is a place of exile has achieved perfection.

-Hugh of St Victor
c.1127  Didascalicon, bk.3, ch.20.