Quotes About Learning

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

And the thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

One faces the future with one's past.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

Time has told me less than I need to know.

To lose Is to learn.

Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, and we need to be taught that.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.