Quotes About Learning

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Few men know how to live. We grow up at random, carrying into mature life the merely animal methods and motives which we had as little children. And it does not occur to us that all this must be changed; that much of it must be reversed; that life is the finest of the Fine Arts; that it has to be learned with life-long patience, and that the years of our pilgrimage are all too short to master it triumphantly.

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

O! more than Gothic ignorance.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself–in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.