Quotes About Learning

The privilege isn't given to everyone.… You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it. —Henry James, 1881

The felicities one is the one who learns by the tribulation of others and does not learn through his tribulation.

The Prophet's wife ??'ishah once said, "The best women were the women of the An??r because modesty did not prevent them from learning the religion.

Hearsay was far more important than knowledge[...]for it is easier to appear knowledgeable than to become so.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

Latin texts and "tried on" various nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, inventing new ones along the way; in the process he would have acquired his vocabulary of some 25,000 words, more than twice the size of the one possessed by John Milton.

Those to whom man teaches little, nature like a wise and prudent mother teaches much.

I no longer complain about taking too much cream. I have made so many errors that unless I forgive myself and forget I will be in a helpless purple situation of self recrimination. The scorpio tail comes round to sting.

Verstehen braucht seine Zeit. Daran solltest du immer denken.

Alle wesentlichen Dinge sind einfach, wenn man sie erst einmal begriffen hat. Schwierig ist nur der Weg, den man bis dahin gehen muss.

Wissen ohne Erfahrung taugt nicht viel.

Was kann ein Lehrer denn schon taugen, dem seine Schüler nicht über den Kopf wachsen?

We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. … I only know two types of wine — red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries — industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.