Quotes About Learning

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

There's no ending. Because every moment is just the beginning, each a new chapter, strategically placed to take you where you're meant to be, to help you grow, to help you learn, to help you understand and to help you appreciate.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

It's getting harder to hone your craft because of YouTube and the internet. You really need to get out to the clubs to hone your craft. A lot of people these days don't have the patience.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

What Tomi liked best was school, which had opened late in the fall of 1942.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence - and it's right there in the name.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

knew nonpoisonous snakes from the baddies, a lesson she still remembered

I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all... It is just about over.

To study in order to know? No. To study in order to know more? No. I think it is to study in order to ask more and more questions.

We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Academia implores you to unlearn then relearn as you climb the ladder of knowledge, creating a thin line between the truth and evidence.

Breaking bad habits is like training a dog, you got to be consistent.

The brain can be continuously and consistently enriched throughout your life no matter your age or access to resources.

the more you understand your memory, the more inspired you'll be to improve it.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.