Quotes About Learning

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

Education is a progressive discovery of your own ignorance.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Study without thought is vain: thought without study is dangerous.

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in mens clothes.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

My God I wanted to learn! To change, to improve!

The school system Nursery School 3 to 6 years Primary School 6 to 11 years Middle School 11 to 14 years Academic Studies 14 to 18 years Technical Institute 14 to 18 years Teacher-Training College 14 to 18 years Arts Academy 14 to 18 years University 18 years and over

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.