Quotes About Learning

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

People mess up and make mistakes all the time. Everyone deserves a second chance right? - Brandon

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I have finished my travels.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.