Quotes About Learning

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.