Quotes About Learning

La ignorancia ignora la sabiduría.

There are people who make success out of failure."

Those who use every opportunity, make even failure contribute to success.

anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.

While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

don't be the smartest person in the room, its corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room.* This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

Still, I accepted this invitation to speak tonight because if one of my fundamental rules for living a successful and happy life is: don't be the smartest person in the room, it's corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room. This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

So as you get older, and as your knowledge grows, don't ever stop learning. Stay curious.

Who hath a book Hath friends at hand, And gold and gear At his command; And rich estates, If he but look, Are held by him Who hath a book. "Who hath a book Hath but to read And he may be A king, indeed. His kingdom is His inglenook- All this is his Who hath a book.

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180 000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

When a traveller gets a thorn in his foot,' Mbejane went on softly, 'and he is wise he plucks it out – and he is a fool who leaves it and says "I will keep this thorn to prick me so that I will always remember the road upon which I have travelled." Nkosi, it is better to remember with pleasure than with pain.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

The best dividends on labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.

Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

Erst durch Lesen lernt man, wie viel man ungelesen lassen kann.

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.