Quotes about Learning

Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all. But it consoled me in a way too; I could see that if I got them all read and had no more surprises in that line, I would have been sorry.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a little money—a much more effective, because pleasurable, and a much cheaper method than the present one of requiring the adult world to be learned in the abstract in school. One's

An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn't shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.