Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
- We should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
- We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
- We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
- We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
- We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.
- Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
- What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.
- What is not fully understood is not possessed.
- What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
- When do you feel smart: when you’re flawless or when you’re learning?
- When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
- When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
- When you lose, you get up, you make mistakes and you learn. And then you become a better playerLionel MessiCommonly attributed
- When you reach the point in your work that you are no longer adding to your store of knowledge or abilities, you are going backward, and it’s time for you to move.
- When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.
- Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us.
- Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.
- While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
- While young, hoard up a great stock of knowledge; though in that season of dissipation you may not have occasion to spend much of it, yet a time will come when you will need it to maintain you.
- Who Dares To Teach Must Never Cease To Learn
- Who is wise? He who learns from all men
- Who questioneth much, shall learn much, and content much.
- Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practise it, is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
- Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
- Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
- Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
- Wisdom is only knowledge well applied.
- Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
- Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
- Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success.
- Yesterday should be the teacher of to-day.
- You are what you read.
- You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.