Quotes about Learning

People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people

Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

Fifthly, As to learning their languages, the same means would be found necessary here as in trade between different nations. In some cases interpreters might be obtained, who might be employed for a time; and where these were not to be found, the missionaries must have patience, and mingle with the people, till they have learned so much of their language as to be able to communicate their ideas to them in it.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.