Learning

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow

And we are put on earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning love

I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.