What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from…

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some lessons are BEST learned, only through PAIN .. !!

— Anonymous

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

— Willa Cather

“tis not best that you seem too learned.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So…

— Paul Smith

“...at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was…

— James Salter

“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

— Paul Auster

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of…

— William Faulkner

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

— Desiderius Erasmus

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

— G. E. M. Skues

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

— Henry David Thoreau

All I have learned, I learned from books.

— Abraham Lincoln

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

— Paul Smith

“Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they’re the closest thing I have…

— Jim C. Hines