Quotes About Learning

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Education is a social thing; that is to say, it brings the child into contact with a definite society and not with society in general.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.

As long as one remains curious, one makes progress; it is when you think you know everything that you are actually out of date.

Emilie Buchwald quotes Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents

This was real life - no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning.

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

The difference between a fixed and growth mindset, how your mindset impacts your personal growth and success, and why a growth mindset is the one you should adopt. Practical strategies to cultivate a growth mindset, from daily habits to overcoming obstacles.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

How old are you ?" asks Plastic again. "That doesn't matter," says StingRay. "What matters is how much stuff I know. People who know a lot of stuff don't need birthdays.

Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity.

The persistence of this imagery calls to mind what Ludwik Fleck termed 'the self-contained' nature of scientific thought. As he described it, 'the interaction between what is already known, what remains to be learned, and those who are to apprehend it, go to ensure harmony within the system. But at the same time they also preserve the harmony of illusions, which is quite secure within the confines of a given thought style.

Books are for various purposes—tracts to teach, almanacs to sell, poetry to make pastry, but this is the rarest sort of book, a book to read.

Some inquire from genuine love of knowledge, or from a real wish to improve what they ask about; others to see their name in the papers.

On few subjects has more nonsense been written than on the learning of Shakespeare.

A Nation will only progress if it's youth moves towards education and will destroy if it's youth leaves the way of education.

A double error sometimes sets us right.

The conscious mind must seek and want the spirit in order to learn the power of the spirit.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole.