Quotes About Learning

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

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.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.