Quotes About Learning

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Beware of the man of one book.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

A wise and an understanding heart.

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.