Quotes About Learning

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

Sometimes you gotta fail in order to succeed

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Worstward Ho!)

Fail, fail again, fail better.

The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

If a man has not studied painting, or at any rate black and white drawing, his eyes are wild; learning to draw tames them. The first step towards taming the eyes is to teach them not to see too much.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

A Babylonish dialectWhich learned pedants much affect.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Beside, 'tis known he could speak GreekAs naturally as pigs squeak:That Latin was no more difficileThan to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.

a man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

It is far safer to know too little than too much.  People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

He had a good healthy sense of meum, and as little of tuum as he could help. Brought up much in the open air in one of the best situated and healthiest villages in England, his little limbs had fair play, and in those days children's brains were not overtasked as they now are; perhaps it was for this very reason that the boy showed an avidity to learn. At seven or eight years old he could read, write and sum better than any other boy of his age in the village. My

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it

As the Spanish proverb says, "He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.