Quotes about Learning

Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

All I had was to improve on their strategy [...] anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

A few days later, however, he wrote in one of his memo books this, which he let me read, "Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice.  7.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.