Quotes About Learning

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

The human race is at war. Our biggest enemy, pure and simple, is ignorance.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! Don't sleep with people who don't read!

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

You didn't get bucked off you fell off. I have a horse that can teach you the difference.

There's a lot of things great about life. But I thin tomorrow is the most important thing. It comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Life is hard. It is harder if you are stupid!

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

I've loved reading all my life.

Life it tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

Why is it that we often go away from Scripture unmoved, unaffected, dull? In the end, it's because we refuse to be schooled by Christ.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

Let me daily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Knowledge only progresses by making mistakes as fast as possible.

If you start to feel old - start working with young people.