Quotes About Learning

You cannot have qualifications without experience; and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement; but it is the way the world is built and we must make the best of it.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you wouldn't read yourself.

it's always the patient who has to take the chance when an experiment is necessary. And we can find out nothing without experiment.

Postajemo mudri ne zbog toga što se prise?amo naše prošlosti, ve? što postajemo odgovorni za našu budu?nost.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.

Don't just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bullshit they teach you in school.

Those who trust us educate us.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

Our guides, we pretend, must be sinless: as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes.

As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually into full consciousness.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.