Quotes About Learning

That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

All great speakers were bad speakers at first.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

a man only knows what he's experienced

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly. We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profound, and who say the thing without effort which we want and have long been hunting in vain.

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.

The years teach much which the days never know.

It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.

Life is an experiment. The more experiments the better

Skill to do comes of doing.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.