Quotes About Learning

I look around at all these teachers, that fed us a narrative that we could be whatever we wanted to be, that we could achieve whatever we dreamed of. That was a load of nonsense. Why didn't they teach us how to cope with heartbreak and disillusionment rather than Pythagoras and the periodic table?

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Just remember--it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

Let us unlearn everything we know only by rote, go back to the beginning, learn all over again.

Assim sendo a boa tradução não é impelida pelas motivações do domínio e da aquisição, mas pelo respeito. Tradução é uma palavra que deigna um conjunto de práticas mediante as quais aprendemos a conviver com as diferenças, com a fluidez da cultura e com a instabilidade do eu.

I am capable of loving, but I am also capable of not loving. That cannot be said about God. God cannot stop loving, because love is God's nature. It is not my nature to love. I must learn to love, and only by God's grace am I able to love as he loves.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

You are either green and growing or you are ripe and rotting." Pick

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

Aspiring novelists should be taught that the old adage, "Write about what you know," isn't limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your store of knowledge, part of what you're prepared to write about. The same goes for stories and memories that other people share with you.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.