Quotes about Learning
An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
— Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
— Samuel Johnson
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
— Samuel Johnson
It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.
— Serena Williams
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".
— Aldous Huxley
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
— Bill Gates
I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.
— Donald Miller
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
— Henry Ford
I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.
— Jonah Hill
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
— Cicero