Quotes about Learning

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Have the humility to learn from those around you.