Elbert Hubbard Quotes on Learning
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books. [Pg. 160.]
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The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.
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To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise-and no faculty grows save as it is exercised. [Pg. 64.]
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I believe in the paradox of success through failure.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.