Quotes about Learning

Life is too short to learn everything by personal experience.

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

Aptitud suple antigüedad.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person.

Perhaps the most essential thing for a continuing education is to develop the capacity to know what you see and to understand what it means. Many people seem to go through life without seeing.

I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and discipline.