Quotes About Learning

But, as applied to me, this teaching did not satisfy.

The educated person is one who knows how to find out what he does not know

A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesn't know.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

El error es el punto de partida de la creación.

Si no se puede enseñar el amor, ¿se puede enseñar el odio?

They will learn by heart, perceiving the elemental pulse of love implicit in that idiom; knowing that the 'amateur' is the lover (amatore) of that which he knows and performs.

Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Pilots say that learning to fly makes you feel taller. In my father's case that was certainly true. By the time his commanding officer pinned on his gold flight wings at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station in June 1943, he had grown two inches since his enlistment, topping out at six feet, two inches. He was not quite nineteen years old, making him the youngest pilot in the United States Navy.

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

A knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Ce sont les échecs de la vie qui attirent, qui ont attiré l'attention sur la vie. Toute connaissance a sa source dans la réflexion sur un échec de la vie.

Above all, they had the cinema. And this was probably the only area where they had learned everything from their own sensibilities.

Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprendre pas : la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le silence.

I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books

How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?

You think I've got brains?' he said, awed. 'Not confusing me with Charlie?' 'Charlie?' uttered Miss Charing contemptuously. 'I daresay he has book-learning, but you have—you have address, Freddy!' 'Well, by Jove!' said Mr Standen, dazzled by this new vision of himself.