Quotes About Learning

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.