Quotes About Learning

A health to books!... Your goblets all refill; When all things mortal are decayed May books be with us still!

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.

What is there to be found of that gravity, humility, meekness, piety or charity requisite to so glorious a pretence?... But a perpetual eructation there is of humane passions, a vain ostentation of mistaken learning, and a causeless picking of controversie.

What's in the raging flame of banned books burning? Knowledge, truth, learning, courage, freedom, yearning.

Don't burn books — let them set young minds on fire.

Let knowledge live. Burn your fears instead.

Books light the world — to burn them extinguishes the flame.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

We are made little wiser, tho much more vain and conceited in the Universitys... The University is the most fertile Nursery of Prejudices, whereof the greatest is, that we think there to learn every thing, when in reality we are taught nothing; only talk by Rote with mighty assurance the precarious Notions of our Systems, which if deny'd by another, we have not a word further to say out of our common Road, nor any Arguments left, to satisfy the Opposer or our selves."

Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.

This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy, because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Even if you make a mistake, make it part of the dance and move on.

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

Despise school and remain a fool.

Nothing is as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated on.

There is no such thing as complete education, and I hope we have heard the last of the girl who is going to Boston to complete her education.

He is an educated man in the best sense of the word — mindful always that there is no such thing as complete education. We are always going to school, and success consists in striving eternally, but never arriving.

Reflect first upon that great law of our nature, that exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

Experience makes more timid men than it duz wise ones.