Quotes about Learning

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

Convictions are lessons learned from experiences we'd never want to go through again, but wouldn't trade for anything in the world.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well - there was hardly a day when I didn't learn something new about them.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

general or specialized knowledge. An educated man

his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, "but," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling does but little more than to put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge.