Quotes About Learning

I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders

imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

Past experience carries with its advantages the drawback that things never happen the same way again.

The problems of the second year of war must be dealt with by the experience of the first year of war. The problems of the third year of war must be met by results observed and understood in the second, and so on.

War is a hard school, but the British, once compelled to go there, are attentive pupils.

And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who were worthy—and why try to stuff it into those who are not?—and knowledge and thought would open the 'magic casements' of the mind.

Those who do not learn from History are condemned to repeat it.

The Christian Church became the sole sanctuary of learning and knowledge.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb—There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of pick themselves up and hurt off as if nothing had happened

Los hombres del comienzo no deben ser juzgados completamente bajo la luz del fin. Tenía que aprenderse todo; tenía que sufrirse todo. Pero los que aprendieron más lentamente no fueron los que tenían que sufrir más.

The great impediment to action is not discussion, but the want of that knowledge which is gained by discussion preparatory to action.'—PERICLES.

But any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Leggere libri è il gioco più bello che l'umanità abbia inventato.

Quién de nosotros sabría admirar a los grandes genios, si en la escuela no se le hubiese puesto bien en la cabeza que son grandes genios?

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity . . . of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness

Knurrewahn hatte viel durchgemacht; aber er war nicht weise geworden.

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

Trusting God is not by what you read or know...It is by doing what you have learned from His Word, Bible.

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.