Quotes About Learning

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

Being a mom changes your life. It actually has made me become more comfortable in my own skin and my own body because it's such a growth and a learning lesson.

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

A lot of people said Star Trek II was such a terrific movie and had a lot of unkind things to say about Star Trek I, but I don't think they realize that Star Trek II wouldn't have been so good if someone hadn't gone boldly where no one had gone before and showed us, in effect, what not to do when it was really important.

Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.

Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo," the seventeenth-century master of haiku, Matsuo Bash?, wrote in a series of insightful reflections on poetry. I would extend Bash?'s wisdom about nature, and about the poetry of nature in particular, to include the particular nature of poetry: learn about poetry from the poem .

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Education is a vacine for violence.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Infrastructure eventually becomes obsolete, but education perpetuates itself as one smart generation teaches the next. In the United States and Europe, industrialization rarely encouraged education.

The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one's mind is a natural impulse when one wishes others to know these facts, just as to cuddle and pat a sick child is a natural impulse. But telling a fact to a child may not cure his ignorance of it any more than patting him will cure his scarlet fever. (p. 61)

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. FRIEDRICH HEGEL