8 Elbert Hubbard Quotes on Learning

Elbert Hubbard quotes on learning

7. 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.]

26. The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.

28. 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.]

53. I believe in the paradox of success through failure.

56. 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.

71. A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.

85. Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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107. You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.