Quotes About Learning

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

investment books in the library. The best was How to Trade in Stocks, by Jesse Livermore.

90 percent of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. They are unlikely to understand in a bone-deep way how the decisions they make now will shape and affect their future.

He knew there was no magic to wipe clean the slate of memory. You just learned how to move on.

These days things had a way of happening around him. Although events seemed chaotic, Cork was beginning to suspect they weren't at all. Sam Winter Moon used to say that sometimes the only way a man learns the true spirit of a rock is to stub his toe on it.

sometimes the only way a man learns the true spirit of a rock is to stub his toe on it.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." In

Greek playwright Aeschylus. "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

for geometry, you know, is the gate of science, and the gate is so low and small that one can only enter it as a little child.

We need to give some time to the arts of cherishing the things we adore, before they simply vanish. Maybe it will be like learning a skill: how to live in paradise.

The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.

I love books. They connect you with the past and the present, with original minds and noble spirits, with what living has been and meant to others. They instruct, inspire, shake you up, make you laugh and weep, think and dream. But while they do enhance experience, they are not a substitute for it.

School isn't supposed to be dangerous. It's not a place they should be afraid of. It's their second home. It's where they spend most of their waking hours.