Quotes About Learning

Parenting is like writing, most people just make it up as they go along.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

No man is the wiser for his learning

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.