Quotes on Learning

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.