Quotes About Learning

We have forgotten that the proper function of the school is to transmit the cultural heritage of one generation to the next generation, and to so train the minds of the new generation as to make them capable of absorbing ancient learning and applying it to the problem of its own day.

Sólo los hombres se marchan. Las mujeres se queda. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque las mujeres aprenden. ¿Y sabes por qué aprenden? Porque escuchan. Los hombres no escuchan. Habla, hablan, hablan durante cincuenta años, y de pronto un día piensan que se están haciendo viejos y se marchan a buscar una más joven. Grandísimos cretinos.

Sólo los hombres se marchan. Las mujeres se quedan. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque las mujeres aprenden. ¿Y sabes por qué aprenden? Porque escuchan. Los hombres no escuchan. Hablan, hablan, hablan durante cincuenta años, y de pronto un día piensan que se están haciendo viejos y se marchan a buscar una más joven. Grandísimos cretinos.

Thomas Edison tried two thousand five hundred different materials in the process of searching for a filament for the light bulb. None worked satisfactorily. So his young assistant complained, "So much work for nothing. We have not learnt anything so far." Edison replied with confidence, "Really? Haven't we learned that there are two thousand five hundred elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb?

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

money. Halfway through that fifth grade year there was no money out on anyone's desk.

The soul of man is nourished by learning, as the body is by food.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists had made mistakes. He was acutely aware of his own tendency to make errors in calculation.

Get wise, youse guys!

Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence.

My ten year old son, at this point, can go into the kitchen and, without a recipe, make cookie dough of some kind. It's not the same every time, but he just knows what it looks like, which is a lot earlier than I ever was involved. I mean, I could make, out of a package brownies and cakes, but not just wing it together. He might be a visionary.

Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative.

Those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge.

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game It's easy

I look at the world, and I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake, we must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps

My work is a means of discovery – about the world, about history, about myself!

My first reality show, 'Bigg Boss 2,' was a good experience, as I learned a lot of things inside the house.

'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.

I definitely watch reality shows where I'm not learning something better in the end.

Being part of reality shows is not easy as I had to learn some new forms that I had never heard of. There were times when I was given two days to learn a new form and perform it in front of thousands! That was a challenge for me.