Learning

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

—Mark Twain

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

—Benjamin Disraeli

Change is the end result of all true learning.

—Leo Buscaglia

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

—Walt Whitman

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

—Stephen Jay Gould

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

—Will Rogers

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

—Leonard Louis Levinson

You must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

—Bob Edwards

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English—up to fifty words used in correct context—no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

—Carl Sagan

It is better to learn late than never.

—Publilius Syrus

We have two lives—the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

—Bernard Malamud

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war,… suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

—Philip Caputo

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

—Bell Hooks