Quotes About Learning

Shakespeare knew too much.

luxuriate in a constant flow of information, picking out whatever I wanted to know.

Knowledge is always useful, even if...if it is not immediately apparent how it will be useful.

you tend to beat yourself up when your decisions turn out poorly.

Many children go to school ill-prepared to learn because they are not emotionally ready to learn. Children need to reach appropriate emotional levels of maturity before they are able to learn effectively at their age level. Simply sending a child to a better school or changing teachers is not the answer. We must make sure our children are emotionally ready to learn. (See chapter 9 for more on

A supportive environment and attitude will help our children learn at home. Children are more emotional than cognitive—that is, they remember feelings more readily than they do facts. This means that your children remember how they felt in a particular situation much more easily than they recall the details of the event. For instance, a child listening to a story will remember exactly how she felt long after she forgets the lesson.

Many parents do not realize that a child can fall behind emotionally. And it is certainly possible for a child to fall behind to such an extent that he can never catch up. What a tragedy! A child's emotional maturation affects everything else—his self-esteem, emotional security, ability to cope with stress and change, ability to socialize, and the ability to learn.

how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.

Sometimes we learn from our children instead of the other way around. — Susan A. Karas —

The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history. We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

Most of us have little training in listening. We are far more efficient in thinking and speaking. Learning to listen may be as difficult as learning a foreign language, but learn we must, if we want to communicate love.

When we correct our children about their language, teaching them which words are appropriate and which aren't, they listen.

Past failures need not destroy your hope for the future.

For most of us, anger control will be something we must learn as adults, and that means unlearning old habits.

Through His love, God helps us learn to love ourselves. — Kathleen M. Muldoon

Live in harmony with each other. Don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don't think you know it all! —Romans 12:16

The person who holds a PhD in aerodynamics may know little about human relationships. The person lettered in psychology may know almost nothing about physics. While we may develop a great deal of knowledge about one small facet of the universe, we remain ignorant beside the immense ocean of knowledge. In the light of our great ignorance, where is the rationale for pride?

I love you. I care about you, and I choose to forgive you. Even though my feelings of hurt may linger, I will not allow what has happened to come between us. I hope that we can learn from this experience. You are not a failure because you have failed. You are my spouse, and together we will go on from here." Those are the words of affirmation expressed in the dialect of kind words.

Jesus said,] "To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge." MATTHEW 13:12 Y

Many children go to school ill-prepared to learn because they are not emotionally ready to learn. Children need to reach appropriate emotional levels of maturity before they are able to learn effectively at their age level. Simply sending a child to a better school or changing teachers is not the answer. We must make sure our children are emotionally ready to learn. (See

Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn't really know very much. —1 Corinthians 8:2

There are valuable life lessons that only failure can teach your child.

Even though Jesus was God's Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered. —Hebrews 5:8

If our children and others don't learn the love of the Lord from us, where will they learn it? — Mimi Greenwood Knight —