Quotes About Learning

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest, unassuming ignorance, than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know, but in a much more complicated manner.

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing; that it is growth rather than treatment.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct, is quite a man.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

Men are men, they needs must err.

Irene Claremont de Castillego

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

Accurate information is a key part of motivation.

When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.