Quotes about Learning

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.

People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people

Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

Fifthly, As to learning their languages, the same means would be found necessary here as in trade between different nations. In some cases interpreters might be obtained, who might be employed for a time; and where these were not to be found, the missionaries must have patience, and mingle with the people, till they have learned so much of their language as to be able to communicate their ideas to them in it.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.