Quotes About Learning

For remember always the maxim: He who would know right must first know wrong!

He who would know right must first know wrong!

I have always been thankful that Mother started teaching me ahead of time, because it enabled me to skip half the grades in school and thus get out quicker. To me, attending school was a gloomy and unjust imprisonment for offenses I had not yet committed. I still think it is unfair for the authorities to assume that children are going to be so wicked that they are prepared arbitrarily for institutional life instead of activities in the open.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

You can't get better at things you never play.

Nothing learned is ever quite wasted.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

alguna vez te ha perturbado una mujer? No te diré que lo aprenderás cuando seas grande porque se aprende a cualquier edad e igual no sirve para nada.

You know I don't know a chestnut from a conker.' [...] 'A Chestnut is a conker

Dr. Edmonds smiled and shrugged. "It's a bit harsh, perhaps, but Ezra Pound once said, 'Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheepherding.' I think he was right. I seem to have spent my life with the sheep.

When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.

Insight is sudden. It is a flash of understanding. It's what we do with our insights that can take a lifetime.

Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.

Christian documents praised missionaries for their sincere preaching of the Gospel, their piety, learning, good sense in daily life, chastity and good deeds. That they lived according to their teaching impressed the pagans. On a purely practical level, they often bought boy slaves in order to bring them up in the Christian way of life, and acquire acolytes. As Christianity is an exclusive religion, it was considered important to destroy pagan sanctuaries.

Either I was genetically predisposed to losing my rag, or I unconsciously learned by example. Whichever it was, it has proved a catastrophic pain in the arse for me and everyone around me for most of my adult life.

For the first time in his life Matt was glad he had done his homework. If he hadn't done that history report, he probably wouldn't even know where he was right now.

You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

A know-all or know-it-all is a person who behaves as if he or she knows everything. Now listen up, no one knows everything, regardless of world renowned professors and intellectuals. Oh! yes, even you personally you don't know everything and you will never know everything, no matter your level of education or qualification. Thus, disregard whatever you think you know presently and then humble yourself in order to learn something new from someone else or others. ~Emeasoba George

A wise and promising person is anyone who has learnt lessons from his or her past life and mistakes. And then, has resolved to utilize and maximize the present moment and every opportunity that shows up. Besides that, he or she is often optimistic about his or her future. ~Emeasoba George

Access to Internet is an access into a Great wealth of knowledge and information. -Emeasoba George

Anyone who is never criticized is obviously not doing anything significant. Oh! Yes, you should be criticized and do take heed to criticisms.

Anything/anyone that comes your way whether good or bad, favourable or unfavourable is meant to teach you a lesson and not at all to lessen you. So, be willing and consistent to learn a lot and then wise up.

Are you teachable or not? Listen up, you've got to be teachable for life. Because, until and unless you are teachable, you cannot learn something new. Yes! if you are not willing to learn no one can teach you. Besides that, if you are not determined to learn no one can persuade you to learn. Now that is to say, teachability (ability and willingness to learn) is the key to learning. So come on, be teachable for life. As well, be apt (quick to learn) at all times. ~Emeasoba George