There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

There is nothing so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

"What! He is going to teach me?!" - Why not? There is nobody from whom you cannot learn. You are always in the bottom class of nursery school.

We believe that choice is a way of learning and of growth, and that it is better for men to choose for themselves, even if they make the wrong decisions than it is to have those decisions made for them.

She has much to learn. The inflexible heart breaks first, the toughest iron cracks first, and the wildest horses bend their necks at the pull of the smallest curb.

I know I am young; but please let me say this: the ideal condition would be, I admit, that man should be right by instinct; but since we are all too likely to go astray, the reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Never try to learn more from an experience than there is in it. There are some vivid and painful experiences that have little to teach us.

Christopher Robin came down from the Forest to the Bridge, feeling all sunny and careless, and just as if twice nineteen didn't matter a bit, as it didn't on such a happy afternoon, and he thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of the bridge, and leant over, and watched the river slipping slowly away beneath him, then he would suddenly know everything that there was to be known.

I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise.