Quotes About Learning

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A

Failures are very important—they mean a great deal to me. After a big failure, I go into a deep depression and a very dark part of my body, but soon afterward I come back to life again, alive to something else.

La peur vient de vos parents et d'autres membres de votre entourage. Ce sont eux qui la construisent en vous. On est tellement innocent au début; on ne sait pas

Children inherent principles; they do not set them.

In mathematics, if you are of quick mind, you can get to the frontline of cutting-edge research very quickly. In some other domains you may have to read entire thick volumes first. Moreover, if you have been for too long in a certain domain, you get conditioned to think like everybody else. When you are new, you are not compelled to the ideas of the people around you. The younger you are, the more likely you are to be truly original.

Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them

After all, education is the key to a higher civilization.

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

Aprender a leer es lo más importante que me ha pasado en la vida

la predisposición para los idiomas es tan misteriosa como la de ciertas personas para las matemáticas o la música, no tiene nada que ver con la inteligencia ni el conocimiento. Es algo aparte, un don que algunos poseen y otros no.

Como disciplina intelectual, dijo, «es aburrido leer a los aliados, a quienes coinciden con nuestros puntos de vista. Más interesante es leer al enemigo, al que pone a prueba la solidez de nuestras defensas. Lo que, en verdad, me ha interesado siempre, es averiguar qué tienen de flaco, de débil o de erróneo las ideas en las que creo. ¿Para qué? Para poder enmendarlas o abandonarlas».

Is there anything more glorious than a professor? Forget about his molding the minds, the future of a nation - a dubious assertion; there's little you can do when they tend to emerge from the womd predestined for Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

Everything I have learned about love, I learned from my mother. For it is mothers who bend, twist, flex, and break most dramatically before our uninitiated eyes. Fathers bear, conceal, inflict, sometimes vanish, so the mythology of domestic union tells us. But mothers absorb, accept, give in, all to tutor daughters in the syntax, the grammar of yearning and love.

One must educate oneself

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

The name of the game in warfare is to learn faster and act faster than the enemy.

Many of the things overheard were redolent of deeper knowledge.

Sometimes knowledge impedes change: We know more but do less.

Together, teaching and learning are the soul of creativity. Our creative vitality arises from our generosity as teachers coupled with our humility as learners. The two cannot be separated; they are the very heartbeat of the creative self.

To be able to create, we must be willing to learn how to quiet our minds, feel our emotions, and stay in the vacuum so the ideas can well up from our deepest place of knowing.

Ask your friends what God has been teaching you about himself. Small groups can also be useful for facilitating these kinds of relationships.

It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.