Quotes About Learning

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

Wisdom is only found in trudi.

Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Who does not know another language, does not know his own.

If you can teach me a new word, I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

"Oh, well," mused the young doctor, "it's too late to cry over spilt coffee — or an unwise decision."

It was said by one hon. Gentleman last night that it was of no use crying over spilt milk, and certainly the observation was a just one so far as regarded the milk already spilt. But if by crying one could prevent other milk from being spilt in future, then the crying might be a very useful process.

...perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.

Age 80. — Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

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