Lack of Learning Quotes

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

For me, the sign of a bad player is someone who makes the same mistake twice.

You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid.