Quotes About Learning

Simplicity is the first thing that is lost, and the last that is regained.

The danger of reading too much is that we shall have only the thoughts of others. The danger of reading too little or none at all, that we shall have none but our own.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch?light ; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume...

Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth.

But he who seeks the flowers of truth Must quit the garden for the field

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.

It's good to remember where you've been.

Experience is like rhubarb. You got to add sugar to make a pie.

Rookies are like baby turtles," he said. "As soon as they hatch out they make a run for the water. Them that make it without getting eaten by birds grow up to be big turtles. Them that don't—don't. An officer's first responsibility is to stay alive.

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

The teacher must ever walk warily between the necessity of inducing those conformities which in every generation reaffirm our rebellious humanity, and of allowing for the free play of the creative spirit.

Your mistakes are not learning experiences if you are not learning from them.