Quotes About Learning

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.