Quotes About Learning

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

It interests me when I hear people quoting great thinkers, because it's like, OK, but does that make you any brighter?

I am a student of good and bad, and I've always been inquisitive. I never want to be the know-it-all in a room. I want to be in the room of those that are thinkers and people that are compassionate, people that have drive and ambition. I'm always driven by it.

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Chess can open up a kid's brain, and develop it in a playful creative way. They can learn playfully about creative, strategic, and logical thinking, and quick problem-solving.

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner.

American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

Every child thinks archaeology is about digging up land to find dinosaur remains and gold. I had the same intentions.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.

You learn a lot from your first Olympic Games experience. Everyone thinks they're prepared, but you never are.

As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.