Quotes About Learning

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Life without literary studies is death.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

Failure is life's magnifying glass.

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents life and the brushstroke represents the steps we take in life.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

You don't know what's happening the next moment, in anybody's life, and you just have to pick up and move on and try to learn from the experience and make the best of it.

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.