Quotes About Learning

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. —St. Augustine

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.

You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.