Quotes about Learning

Years teach much which the days never knew.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

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

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.