Quotes About Learning

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Those who can do, those who can't teach.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.

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

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Dear Teacher. Please stop make us sleepy, we have no bed in class. Sincerely, students.

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.