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Quotes About Learning

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.
~ George Washington
Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.
~ Gil Kalai
And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
~ Henry Rollins
The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
~ Herb Kelleher
Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.
~ Hugh Blair
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
~ Jeff Bezos
How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.
~ Jim Rohn
You need the willingness to fail all the time.
~ John Backus
I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.
~ John Collison
Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
~ John Jakes
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
~ John Sterling
Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.
~ Judith Weir
Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
~ Kenneth Noland
We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.
~ Kim Stolz
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
~ Layne Staley
A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.
~ Lord Byron
The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.
~ Louis Sachar
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
~ Mark Twain
Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.
~ Michael Scott
The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.
~ Natasha Leggero
I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
~ Nate Berkus
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson