Quotes About Learning

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

I never let school get in the way of my education!

People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns a lesson he can learn in no other way.

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

Don't let school get in the way of your education.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.

It surprises me sometimes to think how much we do know and how intelligent we are.

One lives to find out.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Don't let school interfere with your education.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.

As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always go their own way, which makes everybody forsake them and despise them, and that is perfectly natural. If they was humbler, and listened and tried to learn, it would be better for them.

good decisions come from experience. experience comes from making bad decisions.

old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can show off and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off. All our passengers are paying strict attention to this thing, with the end in view which I have mentioned. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.