Quotes About Learning

The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.

Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.

Experience is climbing the ladder built from your mistakes.

[T]he person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Word by word the big books are made.

Confucius perspired out more knowledge than the U.S. Senate has vocalized out in the last 50 years.

It is better to have your nose in a book than in someone else's business.

A new broom sweeps clean but the old broom knows the corners.

For my part, I am not so sure at bottom that man is, as he says, the king of nature; he is far more its devastating tyrant. I believe he has many things to learn from animal societies, older than his own and of infinite variety.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be.  The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience.  Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.  He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it.

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it...

I, for one, never can have too many books; nor can my books cover too many subjects. I may never read them all, but they are always there, and I never know what strange coast I am going to pick up at any time in sailing the world of knowledge.

Such was the lesson that was quickly borne in upon him. It came hard, going as it did, counter to much that was strong and dominant in his own nature; and, while he disliked it in the learning of it, unknown to himself he was learning to like it. It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone.

Not only did they not know how to work dogs, but they did not know how to work themselves.

He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it.

A shout from Francois hailed his appearance. "Wot I say?" the dog-driver cried to Perrault. "Dat Buck for sure learn queek as anyt'ing.

It was illumination, a great light in the darkness of his ignorance, and he read poetry more avidly than ever.

He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson.

La curiosidad, hija del crecimiento, era la que le impulsaba. la necesidad de aprender, de vivir, de hacer algo que le proporcionara experiencia.