In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge.

From the first I was clamorous to learn ...

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.