learning Quotes

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.