Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of read more

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I read more

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.

And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to read more

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]

To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something