Quotes About Learning

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.

I've made so many mistakes and I always thought I'd have time to correct them!

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

I've learned a lot about my game every time I play golf in a men's event.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.