Quotes About Learning

Reading maketh a full man.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.

Hindsight is always zo/20.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Repentance is for little children.

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week.

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.