Quotes About Learning

Lack of knowledge causes fear, and knowledge removes it.

We learn as we go, not as we sit idly by and do nothing.

As long as we think we know everything, we do not know anything.

God's purpose for us and our minds is that we learn to live with a positive attitude. No matter what our circumstances, our minds belong to us and no one can do our thinking for us if we don't let them. I encourage you to be passionate about being positive. A positive attitude lifts us above our circumstances and enables us to have peace in the midst of the storm and to have joy when there is no visible reason to rejoice.

Apply your mind to instruction and correction and your ears to words of knowledge. PROVERBS 23:12

person will get out of the word what he is willing to put into it.

shall He teach in the way that he should choose. He himself shall dwell at ease . . .

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

because he didn't know how to twirl by his ankles, and he didn't want to learn.

You know that what makes us extraordinary can sometimes make us dangerous. Your ancestors are proof of that. It is your job to learn from their mistakes as well as their triumphs. Isn't that true?

Unlike Maxine Kumin, I never learned to pay the syntax.

Abraham Lincoln wasn't much of a dancer. Miss Todd, I should like to dance with you in the worst way, he told his future wife. Miss Todd later said to a friend, He certainly did. John Quincy Adams was a first-rate swimmer. Once when he was skinny-dipping in the Potomac River, a women reporter snatched his clothes and sat on them until he gave her an interview. (Andrew Johnson couldn't read until he was fourteen! He didn't learn to write until after he was married!)

Andrew Johnson couldn't read until he was fourteen! He didn't learn to write until after he was married!)

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

Why do they wait until sixth grade when you already know everything?

You better get used to it. You're going to be on the ground a lot today, but cheer up... tomorrow you'll be an expert.

I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

If I should ever have children I will tell them what religion they are so they can start learning about it at an early age. Twelve is very late to learn. Sincerely, Margaret Ann Simon

Well, that's a first-year teacher for you! Didn't he know that was a bad idea?

The next day, when I got up, Fudge's bed was empty. He doesn't know you're supposed to sleep late when

We find the important similarity of virtue to skill in skills where two things are united: the need to learn and the drive to aspire.

It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master's message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24)