Quotes About Learning

No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you.

Les erreurs ne sont pas des entraves à la progression, mais les fondements même de ce que nous sommes

Les erreurs ne sont pas des entraves à la progression, mais les fondements même de ce que nous sommes Mavis

It is always best to understand the proper way of doing something before you find your own way.

That is life's talent. To accept new things.

He had given me something priceless: namely, his confidence. I am grateful I was forced to make my own way. His disappearance did put me in need and make my future uncertain, but it turns out need and uncertainty can be excellent teachers.

evolutionary terms, failure is its prerequisite, frustration its generator.

A man who possesses the art of correct reading will … instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing … The art of reading, as of learning, is this: … to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

the end of reading is not more books but more life

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

How will I know when I've learned it, since I don't know it now?" he asks. The question sounds like a riddle. "Come back when returning feels like a hard choice instead of an easy one," I answer finally.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand. "I know you're very brave," he said. "Or stupid." " And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.

I hope it unnerves them to know that I am lying. After all, if the insult to me is pointing out that I am mortal, then this is my riposte: I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.