Quotes About Learning

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Don't worry that you've wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

No one is wise at all times.