Knowledge Gain Quotes

It's OK to be wrong. You learn from your wrongs. You don't learn from being right. If you're right, you already know it. If you're wrong, it's because you don't know about it, and you made a mistake.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

The more we know about life out there the easier it will be to improve life down here.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the characters I'm writing about, something happens that they move from wherever they are in the beginning to knowledge or wisdom, they know something they never would have acknowledged or realized if it hadn't been for my book - that for me is what literature does.

Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening was when I was 10, with a biography of Thomas Edison.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Every day's a learning experience.

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

It doesn't hurt to get more education.

I feel like I learn in every project.

Definitely, I've learned a lot, each and every day.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

I always try and take something from each job.