“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”

“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”

“No one has the right to make a boy learn Latin, because learning is a matter for individual choice; but if in a Latin class, a boy fools all the time, the class should throw him out, because he interferes with the freedom of others.”

“No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.”

“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off”

“No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I’m not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.”

“It is right to learn even from an enemy.”

“From one learn all.”
Ab uno disce omnes.

“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”

“Experience by itself teaches nothing…Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning.”