Quotes About Learning

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.