Quotes about Learning

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.