Quotes About Learning

If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year.

I never let schooling interfere with my education

My father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was both, along at first. Then I went over to the great arms factory and learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything; guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery.

I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.

Si supiésemos las cosas, jamás cometeríamos errores; pero sólo somos unos pobres animalitos mudos que tanteamos a nuestro alrededor y cometemos toda clase de errores.

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

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

Never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. - Mark Twain

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. - The Prince and the Pauper

The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.

What's the name of the first point above New Orleans?' I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

At the end of half an hour Tom had a vague general idea of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations.

When I say I'll learn {footnote ['Teach' is not in the river vocabulary.]} a man the river, I mean it. And you can depend on it, I'll learn him or kill him.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings 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.

In these were gathered together the brightest young minds I could find, and I kept agents out raking the country for more, all the time. I was training a crowd of ignorant folk into experts—experts in every sort of handiwork and scientific calling.

Zanim przyjechaÅ'em [do Niemiec], nie wiedziaÅ'em, po co istnieje wieczno??. Teraz ju? wiem. By niektórym z nas da? szansÄ™ nauczenia siÄ™ niemieckiego. SÄ…dzÄ™, ?e tylko Bóg jest w stanie przeczyta? niemieckÄ… gazetÄ™.

CzÅ'owiek, który nie czyta ksi??ek, nie ma ?adnej przewagi nad tym, który nie potrafi czyta?.

Eleinte nem tudtam rájönni, hogy miért vagyok, de most már azt hiszem, azért, hogy kikutassam ennek a csodálatos világnak a titkait, hogy boldog legyek és hálát adjak a TeremtÅ'nek azért, mert létrehozta. Azt hiszem, még sokat kell tanulnom – remélem.

Wir sollten darauf achten, einer Erfahrung nur so viel Weisheit zu entnehmen, wie in ihr steckt - mehr nicht; damit wir nicht der Katze gleichen, die sich auf eine heiße Herdplatte setzte. Sie setzt sich nie wieder auf eine heiße Herdplatte - und das ist richtig; aber sie setzt sich auch nie wieder auf eine kalte.

KiÅŸinin kafas? ve kalbi boÅŸsa, karn? tok olmuÅŸ, neye yarar ! Bugün öÄŸrendiklerimi hep akl?mda tutacak, ald???m dersi hiç unutmayacak, halk?m? bu s?k?nt?lardan kurtaraca??m. Ne de olsa insan?n kalbini yumuÅŸatan da, içine iyilik ve cömertlik a??layan da bilgi deÄŸil mi ? / Çal?nan Taç / The Prince and the Pauper

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

My boys were experts in all sorts of things, from the stoning up of a well to the constructing of a mathematical instrument. An hour before sunrise we had that leak mended in shipshape fashion, and the water began to rise.