Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”
“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter) who didn’t read all the time—none, zero. You’d be amazed how much Warren reads—and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
“The thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”
“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
“Success is the result of making many mistakes and learning from experience.”
“Life is our dictionary.”
“The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are: 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like.”
“Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It’s called the graph.”
“If you cannot read them [books], at any rate handle them and, as it were, fondle them. Peer into them. Let them fall open where they will. Read on from the first sentence that arrests the eye. Then turn to another. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. Set them back on their shelves with your own hands. Arrange them on your own plan, so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.”
“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. This is our permanent state.”
“A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine.”
“Those who will not be counselled, cannot be helped.”
“The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies, than the fool from his friends.”
“That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.”
“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”
“Practice is nine tenths.”
“Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.”
“At Harvard Business School, the great quantitative thing that bonds the first-year class together is what they call decision tree theory. All they do is take high school algebra and apply it to real-life problems. And the students love it. They’re amazed to find that high school algebra works in life.”
“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.”
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
“In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies.”
“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
“Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.”
“He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.”
“Today is yesterday’s pupil.”
“Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant, that he bought a cow to ride on.”
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
“Just as food eaten without caring for it is turned into loathsome nourishment, so study without a taste for it spoils memory, by retaining nothing which it has taken in.”
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
David: “What do you read?”, Gates: “The Economist, every page. Also The Wall Street Journal and Business Week. And I read Time. If I’m traveling, every once in a while I’ll pick up an issue of People. I read USA Today.”
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
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