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Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions · 1954

Learning Quotations

“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

Albert Einstein · Ideas and Opinions , 1954 · Primary source

“I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”

Charlie Munger · 2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 2017 · Primary source

“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.”

Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie’s Almanack, 2005 · Primary source

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Experience, 1844 · Primary source

“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

Ayn Rand · Atlas Shrugged, 1957 · Primary source

“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”

Bill Gates · The Risks of AI are Real but Manageable, 2023 · Primary source

“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.”

Winston Churchill · Painting as a Pastime, 1948 · Primary source

“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.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies, than the fool from his friends.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

Helen Keller · Optimism, 1903 · Primary source

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

Richard Feynman · What Do You Care What Other People Think?, 1986 · Primary source

“Practice is nine tenths.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Power, 1860 · Primary source

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Self-Reliance, 1841 · Primary source

“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.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Books, 1870 · Primary source

“Today is yesterday’s pupil.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Books, 1870 · Primary source

“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.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · The American Scholar, 1837 · Primary source

“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!”

Richard Feynman · Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, 1985 · Primary source

“Those who will not be counselled, cannot be helped.”

Benjamin Franklin · The Way to Wealth, 1758 · Primary source

“Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.”

Benjamin Franklin · The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1771-1790 · Primary source

“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · Tomorrow is Now, 1963 · Primary source

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It’s called the graph.”

Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie’s Almanack, 2005 · Primary source

“Success is the result of making many mistakes and learning from experience.”

Winston Churchill · You do your worst—and we will do our best, 1941 · Primary source

“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.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · The American Scholar, 1837 · Primary source

“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.”

Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie’s Almanack, 2005 · Primary source

“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. This is our permanent state.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Love, 1841 · Primary source

“Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant, that he bought a cow to ride on.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Life is our dictionary.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · The American Scholar, 1837 · Primary source

“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.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

Benjamin Franklin · No reliable source

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

Leonardo da Vinci · No reliable source

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.”

Bill Gates · Playboy Interview: Bill Gates, 1994 · Primary source

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Albert Einstein Theoretical physicistBenjamin Franklin American statesmanBill Gates American Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
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Ideas and Opinions Albert Einstein · 1954Poor Richard’s Almanack Benjamin Franklin · 1732-1758The Way to Wealth Benjamin Franklin · 1758
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Continuous learningInterest and learningLearning beyond facts
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