Quotes About Learning

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

Being humbled is always good for us, even if it doesn't feel good to us.

In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

It's a very good historical book about history.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.