Quotes About Learning

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?" "What's that?" "The world didn't come to an end.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

My last penny! I think I'll squander it on myself. I never feel badly about spending money my dad has earned honestly! I can't decide whether I should buy a balloon or a gumball. A gumball would taste mighty good, but a balloon would be a lot more fun... I'll take a balloon! Sooner or later in life a person has to learn to make decisions! (Sees someone with a different color balloon) Gee, I wish I'd bought a RED balloon.

Ten milligrams equals one centigram. Ten decigrams equals one gram. Ten grams equals one grampa." "Keep going... I can hardly wait to see what comes next...

Little brothers are the New York Mets of life!

They are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them.

Sometimes good judgement comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgement.

Sometimes good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

My coffee had grown cold. I looked down and saw a half cut of cold coffee staring back at me. That meant, in my haste, I had not sucked it down so fast that I hadn't truly tasted it. Working with Marshall, I learned how to find and brew great coffee, but living with Hack, I learned how to taste it. Big difference.

Sometimes good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment." "Doesn't seem right.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. (Thanks Joe P. for the quote)

To live in today's world is not only to have access to all the best that has come before, but also to have a breadth and ease of access that is incomparably greater than that enjoyed even by our parents, let alone earlier generations.

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.

One to whom books are as strangers has not yet learned to live. He is a solitary, though he dwell amid a vast population. On the other hand, he to whom books are as friends possesses a Key to the Garden of Delights, where the purest pleasures are open for his entertainment, and where he has for his companions the master minds of all the ages.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention