Quotes about Learning

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

I think that I learned something about how even tragedy can be a means of grace that I might never have come to any other way.

What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.

Science is not wisdom.

Man is incurably curious.

Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

One would not generally put garbage into the stomach, but too often one will put garbage into the mind.

By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.