Quotes About Learning

Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.

Aren't there any, dear?' 'No,' said Fuchsia. 'Why aren't there?' Fuchsia realized that Mrs Slagg knew virtually nothing, but the long custom of asking her questions was a hard one to break down. This realization that grown-ups did not necessarily know any more than children was something against which she had fought.

We are imitating Nature, who is variable; and he who imitates her cannot be blamed.

Reason why scars form is to show that man can survive his own stupidity Anastasius Focht talking to Phelan Kell on the Dire Wolf

That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors.

You were right once, young man," Anapol said. "That may be all the being right you get.

Bird of Wide Experience I

For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.

WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT WOMEN, ANYWAY? And, lower: HEY, EVERY WOMAN, PAL, IS A VOLUME OF STORIES A CATALOGUE OF MOVEMENTS A SPECTACULAR ARRAY OF IMAGES Then: PLUS THERE'S THE MYSTERY OF LEARNING ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD A fourth man had concluded: AND OF EVERYTHING

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Through studying the past we learn our future.

I didn't have all the answers but experience told me that they would come.

When people think they have discovered or earned a certain knowledge on their own, they are more apt to hold on to it.

can give you whatever science

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.