learning Quotes

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The doer alone learneth.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.