Quotes About Learning

Health that mocks the doctor's rules,Knowledge never learned of schools.

the best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design.

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But a second, equally prominent, emphasis of the early days was learning to navigate without fixed maps; that is, to learn at an unconscious level. As I soon discovered in doing trance work, a hypnotic induction is a set of communications that de-frames or dissolves fixed maps, thereby allowing new experiences unhindered by the map bias.

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

Learning that flowered in days of yore In these our times is thought a bore. Once knowledge was a well to drink of; Now having fun is all men think of.

There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks itself immune to its predecessor's mistakes.

In many ways, history both begins and ends with questions; which is to say that it never really ends, but is a process.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

With God there are no dead ends, only training grounds.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

The wise leader pays respectful attention to all behavior. Thus the group becomes open to more and more possibilities of behavior. People learn a great deal when they are open to everything and not just figuring out what pleases the teacher.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is.

To use history is the only alternative to remaining its slave. To escape a continuing bondage to the past, we must understand the past. Only thus can we make it our servant and instrument, and not leave it our master.

Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.

Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.

Burnt child fire dreadeth.

Small pitchers have wide ears.

There is no fool to the old fool.

I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.