Quotes on Learning

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.