Quotes about Learning

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities.

Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know," said Mr. Brooke