Learning Quotes

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give...

In Indian Country,” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—an...

Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that ...

I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given a...

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

I will learn by screwing up.

Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed th...

A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in ...

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition bu...

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed...

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, ...

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the ad...

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I fe...

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly s...

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Why, then,' answered the squire, 'I am very sorry you have given him so much learning; for, if he ca...

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young...

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil ri...

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circul...

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books

The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Advers...

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...

Thinking, he walked ever more slowly and asked himself, What is it now that you were hoping to learn...

He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But h...

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling...

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends...

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in soci...

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malc...

You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

People think of education as something that they can finish. And what’s more, when they finish, it’s...

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning an...

[What’s exciting is] the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there’s now a little extr...

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you alr...

Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?""Fr...

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find ...

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation ...

We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which former...

The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determ...

Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabet...

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understandin...

He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to se...

Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know...

A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabular...

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortene...

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate...

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; the...

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how ...

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think ...

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think tha...

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many...

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I thin...

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning ha...

Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enli...

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with dif...

We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, c...

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from y...

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it us...

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the pr...

To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the pr...

To be free, you have to examine authority, the whole skeleton of authority, tearing to pieces the wh...

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation ...

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same ...

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to p...

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything im...

It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, yo...

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything im...

It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, yo...

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able t...

Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my pass...

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

He who laughs most, learns best

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is n...

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and...

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remember...

And this is the sense of the word "grammar" which our inaccurate student detests, and this is the se...

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and...

If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In tha...

Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to rea...

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as t...

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it to...

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his ...

Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.