Quotes About Learning

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.

Teach the children so it won't be necessary to teach the adults.

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln

When I learn new things I change my mind, what do you do?

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do

All I have learned, I have learned from books.

Get the books, and read and study them till, you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New-Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places. ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

History, well read, is simply humility well told, in many manners.

But memory remains, experience is a great teacher, and, after all, one has lived to play both parts. ~ E.D. Morel

Ignorance is not bliss; it's a missed opportunity

Sometimes you really want to say Duh, but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.

Few things are as potentially difficult, frustrating, or frightening as genuine learning, yet nothing is so rewarding and empowering.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine