Quotes About Learning

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils, and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

He who can does. He who can't, teaches.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.