Quotes About Learning

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;

He who cannot remember the past is doomed. DOOMED!

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

The ability to overcome failure—to live through it and move on—is crucial. If we are not willing to face failure—if we don't have the skills to survive it—we have precluded any real creativity or risk. Failure may never become our friend, but if we are to do meaningful work, perhaps failure needs to be our companion.

The teacher calls on the first student whose hand went up, and everybody else understands that their participation is no longer required, and so they may immediately disengage.

Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.

Every student is a chance for greatness.

From the very beginning of my studying I made it a rule that whenever, in any matter, I heard a sounder viewpoint, I abandoned the one I had since I know well that we know far less than what we do not know.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

My life is a reading list.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

You can be taught to write – you can't be taught to be an artist

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernhard Shaw

Where in the hell did you learn to fly, Horneman? Microsoft?

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

addition to priming our state of mind, exercise influences learning directly, at the cellular level, improving the brain's potential to log in and process new information.

Indeed, in a 2007 study of humans, German researchers found that people learn vocabulary words 20 percent faster following exercise than they did before exercise, and that the rate of learning correlated directly with levels of BDNF. Along with that, people with a gene variation that robs them of BDNF are more likely to have learning deficiencies.

The more we build these networks and enrich our stores of memory and experience, the easier it is to learn, because what we already know serves as a foundation for forming increasingly complex thoughts.

Far from being hardwired, as scientists once envisioned it, the brain is constantly being rewired. I'm here to teach you how to be your own electrician.

Like synaptic plasticity, "neurogenesis is clearly involved in our interactions with our environment, both emotionally and cognitively," says neuroscientist Fred Gage, of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.

This pattern of balancing between comfort and exploration of the unknown is how we build our brains

exercise provides an unparalleled stimulus, creating an environment in which the brain is ready, willing, and able to learn.