Quotes About Learning

Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?

They will very probably, by remembring past mistakes, avoid many inconveniencies into which forgetfulness will run you lively ones.

And yet all I have said is but  from common reading. And, let me ask, why, because we know but little, we are to be supposed to know nothing?

I know there is so much to learn about medicine and it is all new. It is fascinating all the time and there is nothing more amazing than the human body. The hard physical part of the job will soon become usual and you must watch your health.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Žmog? visada galima pažinti iš jo skaitom? knyg?.

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it could furnish him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, or ornaments, or play-withs, but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

You must allow yourself a few small failures and develop a capacity to forgive yourself when you make a mistake.

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

All great works start with mistake. Ain't no exception in this fact.

I am indebted to the archivists

You know, it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.

Failure leads to a decrease in motivation only when it is accepted as failure. Failure leads students to improve when they see it is a stepping stone on the road to success.

Es que el otro día leí en El Tiempo que los colombianos no tenemos educación política. Por eso a mí me gusta sacar el tema de vez en cuando, a ver qué aprendo. —Pues no sé, el problema es que yo también soy colombiano.

Cuando eres niño, no cuestionas las respuestas. Las grabas de una en una. Las guardas hasta la adolescencia. Y es entonces cuando las cuestionas todas de golpe

But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well as worlds, that otherwise would not be here. Think of this: how we learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Think of the kinds of experiences you have when you are not expected to be here. These experiences are a resource to generate knowledge.

Alienation is studious; you learn more about wishes when they are not what you wish for.

He believed the world was created so people could learn Torah and serve God.