Quotes on Learning

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.