learning Quotes

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.