Quotes About Learning

Experience is the only prophesy of wise men.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself.

Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.

He that reads, be it on yon Kindle or on yon book made from pulp, is he who shall not be called a jackass.

As I learn from you,I guess you learn from me—although you're older—and white—and somewhat more free.

You see, books had been happening to me.

As I learn from you, I guess you learn From me --- although You're older --- and white And somewhat more free.

There is no better distraction in this world than losing oneself in books for awhile.

As we all have an infinite capacity to make mistakes, we all have an infinite capacity for forgiveness.

Life is short, and wisdom long to learn.

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required." "I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.

I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.