learning
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.”
“The doer alone learneth.”
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music—the world is so rich.”
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn.”
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds to the understanding, and ends with reason.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
“He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.”
“Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.”
“People need not be taught; they need access to the opportunity to learn.”
“Most learning is not the result of instruction.”
“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage.”
“Custom is the great guide of human life.”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“Theories are nets; only he who casts will catch.”