Quotes About Learning

I learned, however, that the loss of balance is ultimately more painful than the giving up required to maintain balance. It is a lesson I have continually had to relearn. As must everyone, for as we negotiate the curves and corners of our lives, we must continually give up parts of ourselves. The only alternative to this giving up is not to travel at all on the journey of life.

It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

After greeting him I remarked, Boy, I sure admire you. I've never been able to fix those kind of things or do anything like that. My neighbor, without a moment's hesitation, shot back, That's because you don't take the time.

Cissy could read big thick books, not just The Cat In The Hat.

Because I begin from the premise that people are too complex for simple explanations. It is the habit of simplifying people that leads so many astray in their quest for understanding. You can't learn a person you've decided you already understand.

He wanted to explain philosophy to me; I asked him not to.

Devia tê-la marcado; sinto a falta de uma nota escrita naquela mesma noite, e que eu poria aqui com os erros de ortografia que trouxesse, mas não traria nenhum, tal era a diferença entre o estudante e o adolescente. Conhecia as regras do escrever, sem suspeitar as do amar; tinha orgias de latim e era virgem de mulheres.

O que eu peço à crítica vem a ser — intenção benévola, mas expressão franca e justa. Aplausos, quando os não fundamenta o mérito, afagam certamente o espírito e dão algum verniz de celebridade; mas quem tem vontade de aprender e quer fazer alguma coisa, prefere a lição que melhora ao ruído que lisonjeia.

Aplausos, quando os não fundamenta o mérito, afagam certamente o espírito e dão algum verniz de celebridade; mas quem tem vontade de aprender e quer fazer alguma coisa, prefere a lição que melhora ao ruído que lisonjeia.

Mankind do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things.