Quotes about Learning
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is a teacher, a brutal teacher. But you learn, my God, do you learn.
— CS Lewis
Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.
— Brian Tracy
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
— Cicero
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
— Cicero
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
— Cicero
Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.
— Cicero
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
— Cicero
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
— Cicero
We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
— Margaret Mead
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
— Marianne Williamson