Quotes about Learning

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.