learning Quotes

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The march of the human mind is slow.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

To innovate is not to reform.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.