Quotes About Learning

I)f you did not read when you were young, you might never catch the disease and then what would be the use of living?

Damn, you know books and sports on television. You're a triple threat." "Those are the sorts of things that keep you alive when you pass seventy." In mild

When Hiram Cater was seven years old his serious education began, not in spelling or arithmetic but in the brutal tactics of survival in a white world.

James A. Michener

Because a boy who could read would sooner or later come upon some book that would give him an idea, and a boy with an idea could accomplish almost anything.

When Wiktor asked how Miss Trilling had acquired so much knowledge of music, she resumed an earlier explanation which had been interrupted: "I attended a distinguished college in America, Oberlin, where music was important.

James A. Michener

Never be ashamed of anything! If you've made a fool of yourself, just don't do it again. But being ashamed is only being a fool twice for the same reason.

James A. Michener

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner. It is much better to confine yourself to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

Thus he started his education, that marvelous, growing, aching process whereby a mind develops into a usable instrument with a collection of proved experience from which to function, and he was suddenly tired of Yale

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it... but those who remember the future can plan ahead for the weather.

Aceia care uit? trecutul sunt blestema?i s?-l repete, dar cei care-?i amintesc viitorul pot s? se preg?teasc? pentru orice."

You are who you learn from. Choose wisely.

As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.

In this path, as in no different, is the regulation absolute that He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened; for most effective through endurance, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge.

As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances. Man

All that you positively know is contained in your own experience; all that you ever will know must pass through the gateway of experience, and so become part of yourself.

which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.

As evil is the direct outcome of ignorance, so, when the lessons of evil are fully learned, ignorance passes away, and wisdom takes its place.

He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened"; for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the door of the Temple of Knowledge.