Quotes About Learning

will help you at night and while you're at school, but the rest of the time, he is your responsibility." I nodded. "I can do it. I want to help the bird grow up. By the way, you don't have to get me a pet now. The bird will be my pet. You know why? I had just decided

Not learning how to read is not another style of literacy, and not learning to see others as ends in themselves is not another style of ethics. It is a failure of ethics.

I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.

Socrates—were

With any teacher or book, take what resonates with you and leave the rest. Your own mind is your greatest teacher. Trust it.

Knowledge squared is wisdom, and wisdom squared is virtue.

I remember him saying over and over again: go in and check our competition. Check everyone who is our competition. And don't look for the bad. Look for the good. If you get one good idea, that's one more than you went into the store with, and we must try to incorporate it into our company. We're really not concerned with what they're doing wrong, we're concerned with what they're doing right, and everyone is doing something right.

I learned from a very early age that it was important for us kids to help provide for the home, to be contributors rather than just takers. In the process, of course, we learned how much hard work it took to get your hands on a dollar, and that when you did it was worth something. One thing my mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money: they just didn't spend it.

I guess that was the forerunner of our Saturday morning meetings. We wanted everybody to know what was going on and everybody to be aware of the mistakes we made. When somebody made a bad mistake—whether it was myself or anybody else—we talked about it, admitted it, tried to figure out how to correct it, and then moved on to the next days work.

As my doubts about whether to move to the Balkans lingered, I devised a test for myself that I have used many times since. The test, as I put it then, was as follows: If I end up not making it as a journalist, will something else I learn in the process make it worth trying? I would come to call this the in trying for Y, the most I accomplish is X test, or the X test.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries.

Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.