Quotes About Learning

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

Beware of the easy path. Knowledge grows only through challenge.

The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student.

The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to examination.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman [Walpole] has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

clear benefit of writing legal memoranda is that when it comes to learning how to write well, nothing beats practice. As a junior associate you'll find that over time, you'll learn to draft memoranda that present logical, clear analyses of even the most complicated legal issues.