Quotes About Learning

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

Dad," he said, "how far away is the sun?" "Five thousand miles," his father said.

Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after.

Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Yung man, don't grind yure scythe all on one side!

Do you know that one out of every five kids has learning challenges? I'm sure I had them, too, but when I was growing up, no one even knew there was such a thing.

I will therefore spend this Preface, rather about those, from whom I have gathered my knowledge; For I am but a gatherer and disposer of other mens stuffe, at my best value.

Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.

I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.

There is only one real knowledge: that which helps us to be free. Every other type of knowledge is mere amusement. —VISHNU PURANA,