Quotes about Learning

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

We are wiser than we know.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.