Quotes About Learning

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

A man I respected very early in my career told me, 'If you wanna truly be good at this, you have to learn to hate.'

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.