Quotes About Learning

What is ironic is that we recognize the need for education in all other pursuits of life and fail to recognize that need when it comes to marriage. Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.

It's not the solution, Mr. Canton. It's the path to the solution that's fascinating.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

Joseph just listened. It was like he was dragging every word about Jupiter into himself so he could remember it and treasure it in his heart.

Because competence-building represents more cumulative learning than great leaps of inventiveness, it is difficult to "time compress" competence-building.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, what makes a job low skilled is not the nature of the work it entails, or the credentials required, but whether or not the people performing the task have the opportunity to grow their capabilities and tackle novel problems. The most important lesson to be gleaned from post-bureaucratic pioneers is that it's possible to radically upskill what would otherwise be regarded as low-skilled jobs

the best in any profession is first a teacher

Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers.

You want to stay hungry...to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don't learn.

Perhaps when I am grown I will not know anything. Perhaps that is the way it works, the way it is with growing. When you grow, you start to unlearn things.

He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

I wish I had a dollar for every hour I've spent in the library, he always says. I have to agree- we'd probably never have to worry about money again.

I know that my life on boats has been about this: not the sailing or the sea so much as learning about self. And almost every boat I have had has taught me something.

The most, MOST important thing is to read. Read all the time; read when they tell you not to read, what they tell you not to read, read with a flashlight under the covers, read on the bus, standing on a corner, waiting for a friend, in the dentist's waiting room. Read every minute you can. READ LIKE A WOLF EATS. Read. 

All of flying is easy. Just takes learning. Like everything else. Like everything else.

You eat the gut berries, you throw up. Don't eat the gut berries.

But there's something really nice about spending time with a little kid. You learn so much.

That simple. You lived or you died. And in between the two, if you kept your mind open and aware and listened and smelled and watched... In between you learned. from Northwind

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be, to books.

The biggest advances are not made by being a great teacher; they are made by being a great student.

Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

È questo che ammiro nella gioventù italiana, il lento scemare delle ambizioni, la consapevolezza che il meglio è di gran lunga alle spalle. Noi americani abbiamo molto da imparare dal loro declino pieno di grazia.