Quotes About Learning

One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both. At

Ignorance is beneficial when we are aware of it.

I liked my scotch undiluted, like I liked my truth. Unfortunately, undiluted truth was as affordable as eighteen-year-old single malt scotch. What about those who have not learned the best of what was thought and said?

One must be grateful for one's education no matter how it arrives.

Becoming stupider was a consequence of age for which he was unprepared. With

But for all we thought we knew about them, there were some things we knew we did not know even after many years of forced and voluntary intimacy, including the art of making cranberry sauce, the proper way of throwing a football, and the secret customs of secret societies, like college fraternities, which seemed to recruit only those who would have been eligible for the Hitler Youth. Not

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

A child will behave as he has been taught. Tolerance is one of the first lessons to be learnt.

A fine quotation has really no meaning only when one reads without getting any inspiration from it.

A good teacher has a love of teaching. A great teacher has a love of learning.

A little knowledge may or may not be a dangerous thing. It will certainly soon be more expensive.

A mistake doesn't make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one.

A person can understand almost everything deeply through quotations.

A person who takes warning from the mishaps of others will always be happy.

A person without learning is like a beast dressed up in man's clothes in the field.

A skilled teacher and a few good books can always cure ignorance.

Always listen closely to what children have to say, because really we learn more from them each day.

An ignorant person is poorer than the man who has no money.

Books are for only those who can live without television.

Challenges are the most truthful and strictest of teachers.

Children are like the rain, we shouldn't be angry with them because they just don't know how to fall upwards.