Quotes about Learning
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
— Joseph Addison
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
— Thomas a Kempis
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
— Seneca
Without tact you can learn nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
— Cicero
Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.
— Anonymous
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
— Anonymous
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— St. Isidore of Seville
As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.
— Seneca