Quotes About Learning

On weekends his idea of rest was to read military history aloud to his daughters.

The most important "endowment," from our perspective, is a society's learning capacities (which in turn is affected by the knowledge that it has; its knowledge about learning itself; and its knowledge about its own learning capacities)

Reading is experience. A biography of any literary person ought to deal at length with what he read and when, for in some sense, we are what we read.

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.

College education is highly overrated. Take it from a man who dispensed it.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Csak úgy tanulhat az ember, ha próbálja.

was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything

agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play

Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man.

When you want wisdom as much as you wanted air when you were immersed in the water, you will receive it.

You can always look ahead for at all times you are gazing into infinite life. You will find that you can never cease to unveil the glories and wonders of life. Try to learn something new every moment of the day, and you will find your mind will always be young.

Be sure that your mind never retires. It must be like a parachute, which is no good unless it opens up. Be open and receptive to new ideas.

My memory from today on is improving in every department. I shall always remember whatever I need to know at every moment of time and point of space. The impressions received will be clearer and more definite. I shall retain them automatically and with ease. Whatever I wish to recall will immediately present itself in the correct form in my mind. I am improving rapidly every day, and very soon my memory will be better than it has ever been before.

Become enthusiastic over new creative ideas, make spiritual progress, and continue to learn and to grow. In this manner you remain young in heart, because you are hungering and thirsting after new truths, and your body will reflect your thinking at all times.

You can bring into your life more power, more wealth, more health, more happiness, and more joy by learning to contact and release the hidden power of your subconscious mind. You

Golf can't be taught, it can only be learned.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

The more tools you have to work on a problem in the form of experiences or knowledge, the more new ways you can figure out how to solve it.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Up up and quit your books' is not an adjuration commonly thought advisable in universities but there are occasions -- as for instance, when studying Wordsworth when it might be advisable.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.