Quotes About Learning

Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

A library is thought in cold storage.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Thought is born of failure.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.