Quotes about Learning

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ by loving. —FRANCIS DE SALES

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of creatures; and through imitation he learns his earliest lessons.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.