Quotes About Learning

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe', and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have assigned themselves to failure.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

A few days later, however, he wrote in one of his memo books this, which he let me read, "Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity -- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

We cannot teach what we do not know and we cannot lead where we will not go.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." ? Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

We do ability grouping early on in childhood...if we look at young kids, in kindergarten and first grade, the teachers are confusing maturity with ability.

Marc Aronson

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

There's a lot of controversy when it comes to theories about evolution, but when it comes to evolution in the software industry, there's only one theory that makes sense: surviving by learning from experience and usage patterns.

I am a child who is getting on.

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

Todos los hombres pueden caer en un error; pero sólo los necios perseveran en él

La cultura no garantiza el buen juicio, el escepticismo ni la sabiduría.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken

From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly.