You learn something every day if you pay attention.

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

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.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost
childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant read more

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost
childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then
his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly
his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable read more

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them
that seek learning.

Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them
that seek learning.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With read more

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,
For Whigs allow no force but argument.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.