# Quote — Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

> Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

- Author: [Umberto Eco](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco.md)
- Book: [The Name of the Rose](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/the-name-of-the-rose.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco#The_Name_of_the_Rose_(1980)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/the-name-of-the-rose/because-learning-does

## More from this book

> Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/the-name-of-the-rose/fear-prophets-adso.md)

> There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/the-name-of-the-rose/there-are-magic.md)

> Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/the-name-of-the-rose/stat-rosa-pristina.md)