Quotes About Learning

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

The trouble with education is,' said Jimmy cheerfully, 'that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to reread it later. There's more sense in books, Cicily, than you'd really believe. Though, of course, they don't teach you anything vital that you can't learn for yourself.

When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the present that had consumed him-each day with all its chores and never enough hours to do them.

For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world." "And that, my lord?" "Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.

Not problems so much. Just opportunities to learn patience.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife.

If you have knowledge , let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." ? Margaret Fuller

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Very early I knew that the only objective in life was to grow

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So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Knowledge does not bring wisdom, especially when it is cheaply and easily come by. There was peace in the learning of the past, because men earned it slowly, absorbing it into the very stuff and pattern of their lives. Now any glib fellow can get a smattering of it, and be none the less a fool, only the more dangerous. For his object will be neither wisdom nor peace, but the vulgar determination to make good his own ends, at no matter whose expense.' The