Quotes About Learning

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.

A fool's head never whitens.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

There is no chance for old fools.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

If you want to die happily, learn to live; if you would live happily, learn to die.

Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.

With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.