Much learning does not teach understanding.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least read more

The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use,
In all these he was much and deeply read.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am read more

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.