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William Sleator1
Young adult science fiction novelist 1945–2011Related quotes
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes”
Moira Lister (1923–2007) actress
Sunday Times interview (1983)
“I have learned more from Ezra Pound about writing than from anyone else.”
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer
Review of Letters of Ezra Pound 1950
Prose
Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet
"Letter of 1607", as cited by Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., 2012, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, p. 218.
“Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.”
Experto crede: aliquid amplius invenies in silvis, quam in libris. Ligna et lapides docebunt te, quod a magistris audire non possis.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church ([1840] 1841) p. 324
“I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.”
Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone
Source: She's Come Undone
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”
Cato the Elder (-234–-149 BC) politician, writer and economist (0234-0149)
Plutarch's Life of Cato
Variant: Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day
