Quotes About Learning

Conclusion : l'idéal esthétique est hédoniste et susceptible de progrès. L'idéal moral est doloriste et n'est pas objet d'apprentissage.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

It is not he who makes no mistakes that is intelligent. There are no such men, nor can there be. It is he whose errors are not very grave and who is able to rectify them easily and quickly that is intelligent.

I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

As is invariably noted at the beginning of positively all literary biographies, the little boy was a glutton for books.... For his first writing exercise he painstakingly reproduced: "Obey your sovereign, honor him and submit to his laws," and the compressed ball of his index finger thus remained ink-stained forever. Now the thirties are over and the forties have begun.

I have some rules of my own. One of them is never to regret anything. Over time, I came to the conclusion that this was the right thing to do. As soon as you start regretting and looking back, you start to sour. You always have to think about the future. You always have to look ahead. Of course you have to analyze your past mistakes, but only so that you can learn and correct the course of your life.

My English is very bad.

On learning that the instigators of the uprising had been shot, she was incensed both by the fact that they had been shot at all and the fact that not enough of them had been shot.

A man who wants to train your brain should come in out of the rain.

Nature has always had more force than education.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

History should be written as philosophy.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.