Quotes about Learning

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.