Quotes About Learning

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Die knowing something. You're not here long.

No puede tenerse una vida plena en mente sin libros y tiempo para estudiarlos, sin oportunidad para viajar y observar o sin compañerismo intelectual.

A person cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship. To live fully in mind, one must have intellectual recreations and must be surrounded by all objects of art and beauty one is capable of using and appreciating.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.

What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.

you must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.

Anyone pretending to be a guide through wild and fabulous territory should know the territory. I wish I knew it better than I do. I am not Jed Smith. But Jed smith is not available these days as a guide, and I am. I accept the duty, at least as much for what I may learn as for what I may be able to tell others.

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In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases.

An acquaintance with books and learning was not a thing that a frontier boy like John Wesley Powell could take for granted; he had to seize it as he could. Abe Lincoln said it for every such boy with brains and dreams in his head: "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is a man who'll git me a book I ain't read.

We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

Man is an eternal sophomore.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

According to Plato, the wise man is the best ruler precisely because he doesn't care unduly about political honor and power, much less about bodily pleasures. He is too absorbed in the pleasures of learning to be tempted by the lesser pleasures of glory, wealth, and hedonism. His rule is therefore benevolent and unmarred by self-interest, because the passions which in lesser men would be absorbed in material goods and sensual pleasures are sluiced off into the pleasures of the mind. The

Most people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying that they made them.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.