Quotes About Learning

Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.

Nowadays, people read too many books to appreciate any.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

I give the truths of tomorrow. I prefer the mistakes of today, she answered.

Are there not books that make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?

The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question of temperament not of teaching; to Parnassus there is no primer and nothing that one can learn is ever worth learning.

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

the secrets of art are best learned in secret, and that Beauty, like Wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper.

I am not sorry for anything that has happened. It has taught me to know myself better.

Practice precedes perfection.

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.  More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.

Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.