Quotes

Published September 29, 2012

I find four great classes of students: the dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. — Martin H. Fischer

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. — Dudley Field Malone

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Study hard, for the well is deep and our brains are shallow. — Richard Baxter

A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. — Chinese proverb

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. — Clay P. Bedford

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. — Harry S. Truman

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. — Henry L. Doherty

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. —Antisthenes

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. — Alexander Pope 

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