Quotes About Learning

Questions can excite, disturb, discipline, or comfort, but they always stimulate inquiry.

Trump doesn't read.

academy—instructors set up scenarios to show trainees how

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

Steep curving stone stairs led to a square library on the floor above. The 4,000 books in the library were mostly collected between 1710 and 1730. ... For a moment I was tempted to ask to be locked in. If I could skim ten books a day for a year, I would be able to get a sense of most of what David Hume might have read in 1730 -- an age when it still might just have been possible to read everything.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

Zhaanat's knowledge was considered so important that she had been fiercely hidden away, guarded from going to boarding school. She had barely learned to read and write on the intermittent days she had attended reservation day school. She made baskets and beadwork to sell. But Zhaanat's real job was passing on what she knew. People came from distances, often camped around their house, in order to learn.

Thomas had tried to educate himself, mainly by reading everything he could find. When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

Out of a whole lifetime, by God, sometimes the only thing that saves a person is error, and I know that we shall not be saved so long as our error is not precious to us.

While in prison, I received a dictionary. It was sent to me with a note. This is the book I would take to a deserted island.

The door is open. Go. While in prison, I received a dictionary.

She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn.

I want to know everything, everything, screeched Harriet suddenly, lying back and bouncing up and down on the bed. Everything in the world, everything, everything. I will be a spy and know everything. It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Harriet never minded admitting when she didn't know something. 'So what,' she thought, 'I can always learn.

Life is a classroom and boredom is the monitor.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget.

Perdemos a maior parte de nossa juventude por conta das inabilidades. Saltava aos olhos que ela ia me abandonar, minha bem-amada, de vez e em breve. Eu ainda não havia aprendido que existem duas humanidades muito diferentes, a dos ricos e a dos pobres. Precisei, como tantos outros, de vinte anos e da guerra para aprender a me manter na minha categoria, para perguntar o preço das coisas e dos seres antes de tocá-los, e em especial antes de desejá-los.

You need a heart and a certain amount of knowledge to go further than other people.

Pentru ca în creierul unui tâmpit s? se contureze un gând, e nevoie s? i se întâmple multe lucruri ÅŸi tare crunte.

As a librarian I learned one of life's great truths: you don't have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.