Quotes About Learning

Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight.

Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented.

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.

To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Experience is largely non-transferable.

You cannot inherit experience

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a wiser man learns from someone else's.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Fools copy proverbs

Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.