Quotes About Learning

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

That which hurts, also instructs.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.

You tell me, and I forget You teach me, and I remember You involve me, and I learn

Do not fear mistakes.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.