Quotes About Learning

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

Something surprising occurred to Finn. Are you all scared? he asked. Just because you don't know where the spinning room took us? Does it scare you that much when you don't know stuff? He jumped up to the next higher step. You should all remember what it's like to be a second grader. There's lots of stuff I don't know or understand, and I'm fine.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'?

Raistlin no habló de ello con nadie; había aprendido muy pronto que el conocimiento era poder, sobre todo si era el secreto de otra persona.

Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.

Écrire toute sa vie, ça apprend à écrire. Ça ne sauve de rien.

Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.

Los pedantes se irritan siempre de que conozcamos tan bien como ellos su mezquino oficio.

El verdadero lugar del nacimiento es aquel donde por primera vez nos miramos con una mirada inteligente; mis primeras patrias fueron los libros. Y, en menor grado, las escuelas.

La musique] L'enseigner aux enfants est une épreuve pénible, parce que la technique les détourne de l'âme. (p. 80)

Ugh. Don't even get me started. It's like teachers think we have nothing better to do with our lives than to come home and do more schoolwork.) [SirLeo] (It's coz they're old and have no lives and want to punish those who do.)

I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.

You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

when we think we have things already figured out, we're not teachable. Genuine insight can't dawn on a mind that's not open to receive it.