learning Quotes

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.