Quotes about Learning

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

The fairy tale belongs to the child and ought always to be within his reach, not only because it is his special literary form and his nature craves it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to him in the school of life. In ultimate importance it outranks the arithmetic, the grammar, the geography, the manuals of science; for without the aid of the imagination none of these books is really comprehensible.

Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

If I had stopped asking questions, that's where I would have remained.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Chimpanzees and the other great apes can learn four hundred or more words of American Sign