Quotes About Learning

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

My reputation grows with every failure.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

It takes knowledge and experience to say precisely and consisely what is true and what is needed. Scholarship often excels in lofty learning and deep digging to emphasise what we knew all along. Adrian Hawkes' little book, based on real life, bring us what so many don't know and greatly need to know. I would not be ashamed to put it alongside many weighty volumes on my study shelves.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

Failure teaches you everything—you learn nothing from success.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.