learning Quotes

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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

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.

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

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

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.