Quotes About Learning

Children may close their ears to advice, but they keep their eyes open to an example.

Practice what you preach before you try to teach it to someone else.

Never say, 'oops.' Always say, 'Ah, interesting.'

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.

Whenever you fall, pick up something

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

He who takes advice is wiser than the one who gives it.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

An intelligent person not only knows how to take advice, but also how to reject it.

It's a bad child who does not take advice.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced.

Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.