“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”
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“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
“Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.”
“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”
“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.”
“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”
“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.”
“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
“I would fain grow old learning many things.”
“If I am through learning, I am through.”
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
“Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.”
“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.”
“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”