Quotes About Learning

I think that I learned something about how even tragedy can be a means of grace that I might never have come to any other way.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

Experience is a keen teacher;

Bir kez okumay? öÄŸrendikten sonra sonsuza dek özgür olacaks?n?z.

What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.

I was most keenly sensitive to know any and everything possible that had any relation to the subject of slavery. I was all ears, all eyes, whenever the words slave or slavery dropped from the lips of any white person, and more and more frequently occasions occurred when these words came leading ones in high, social debate at our house.

It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it now, after so many years, with some complacency and a little wonder that I could have been so earnest and persevering in any pursuit other than for my daily bread. I certainly saw nothing in the conduct of those around to inspire me with such interest: they were all devoted exclusively to what their hands found to do.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

Once you learn to read you will be forever free

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.

Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn!

La investigación es una necesidad continua y la savia de la buena conservación.

I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Love, too, has to be learned.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.