Quotes about Learning
She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.
— Edith Wharton
She still did and was all that Undine had so sedulously learned not to be and to do; but to dwell on these obstacles to her success was to be more deeply impressed by the fact that she had nevertheless succeeded.
— Edith Wharton
minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are likely to be swallowed in the process.
— Edith Wharton
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
— Edmund Burke
In history, a great volume is unravelled for our instruction, drawing materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
— Edmund Burke
Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.
— Edward Welch
The key to learning the fear of the Lord is to stay in Scripture. When you are in the Scripture, pray that God would teach you that he is the Holy One.
— Edward Welch
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
— Albert Camus
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
— Albert Einstein
a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.
— Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
— Albert Einstein
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
— Albert Einstein