Quotes About Learning

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts, learned his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation and real skill.

It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

If the young only knew; if the old only could.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

An old codger, rampant, and still learning.