Quotes About Learning

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The work will teach you how to do it.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Ignorance never settles a question.

We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

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

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

They asked Lucman, the fabulist, From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.