Quotes About Learning

Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth.

I'm here to learn. And what you have taught me is to avoid love as long as possible.

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

Yes, it's a bit like learning French. When you open your mouth, you risk sounding like an idiot. But if you don't take that chance, you'll never speak at all.

His father, however, did not want Romero to continue his studies but to learn a trade. He was apprenticed by his father to one of the local carpenters, where he learned to make doors and tables

I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn't teach them anymore because it wasn't fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn't have the knowledge to withhold.

He read Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli.

Imparai tutte, o quasi tutte, le cose più importanti che erano state pensate e scritte prima della mia nascita; mi abituai a guardare il mondo con cento occhi, anziché con i miei due soli, e a sentire nella mia testa cento pensieri diversi, anziché il mio solo pensiero. Diventai consapevole di me stesso e degli altri. Gli uomini, senza la lettura, non conoscono che una piccolissima parte delle cose che potrebbero conoscere.

The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm.

Reading, he claims, would broaden my experience of the world. The ideas to be found in serious books would deepen my thinking about every choice I make.

I told her that I was a University of One, Una University, and that all day she should listen to me talk.... But when I began to expatiate, it amazed me how little I knew, and that, really, it did not require the day, but only the morning to get through it all.

I liked to watch the real salesmen-- the old-time travelers. A lot could be learned from those guys. Those fellas had plenty of charm. They used to say that sincerity sells-- and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal. The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into something more than a purpose-driven tool for the industrial state.

We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it's your turn to stand up and stand out.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong.