Quotes About Learning

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...

When I learned to sew, I forgot how to cook.

My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, "You mean you can do all that, but you can't play my Game Boy?"

Proverbs are the lamps to words.

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass.

Quoter's curiosity is a disease whose only cure is more reading.

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. To patch-work learned quotations are allied; Both strive to make our poverty our pride.

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

How often must I tell you that we are made wise not by the recollections of our past, but by the responsibilities of our future.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Scars are lessons, or victories, memorialized in flesh.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science...

He whose science exceedeth his sense, perisheth by his ignorance.

The barber learns to shave at the beards of fools.

The little boy was coming home from school. He was skipping merrily along, singing to himself and swinging his bag of books at arm's length, while he kept time with his nimble little feet to a song he had been learning in his class that day.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of flying. There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a good direction. I tried to imitate him. But I've realized that it's very difficult to make good mistakes.

Jugend hat keine Tugend

the roasted-paper smell of very old books, and the seared ink of photocopied pages.