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Quotes About Learning

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
~ Rachel Kushner
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.
~ Ray Bradbury
Education helps you to be what you really want to be.
~ Debasish Mridha
A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.
~ Eraldo Banovac
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
~ Mark Twain
A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
~ Duke of Wellington
Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it.
~ Takeda Shingen
You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.
~ Robert McNamara
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.
~ Alice Herz-Sommer
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.
~ Elise M. Boulding
One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."
~ Takeda Nobushige
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
~ William Westmoreland
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
~ George S. Patton
If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.
~ Bashar al-Assad
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.
~ Douglas MacArthur
At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
~ Allen Dulles
For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.
~ Origen
Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
~ Thanhha Lai
It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo