logo

Quotes About Learning

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.
~ Markus Zusak
Don't ask him for help," Mama pointed out. "That Saukerl." Papa was staring out the window, as was often his habit. "He left school in fourth grade." Without turning around, Papa answered calmly, but with venom, "Well, don't ask her, either." He dropped some ash outside. "She left school in third grade.
~ Markus Zusak
Goodbye, papa, you saved me. you taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. no one can play like you.
~ Markus Zusak
just because I can't read, doesn't mean I'm stupid - Liesel
~ Markus Zusak The Book Thief
they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;
~ Marshall McLuhan
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms.
~ Marshall McLuhan
In the Greater Community, there are races at all levels of evolution and technological skill. There are races that are dedicated to good. And there are races that are dedicated to destruction. However, because they have to contend with each other, they moderate each other. To the extent that they do have contact, they learn from each other and influence each other, physically and mentally.
~ Marshall Vian Summers
We are supported by a universe that has no interest in hurting us, only in teaching us to dance
~ Martha Beck
It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.
~ Martha Beck
But I think I've learned a lesson and that is that you have to find your own answers on things. Even if they're wrong answers. The point is in the finding.
~ Martha Grimes
In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
~ Martha N. Beck
What would you rather? yelled Sybil from the distant sandpit. Know everything or know nothing? Know nothing, I yelled back. Then you have the fun of finding everything out.
~ Martin Amis
Eight years ago, I wouldn't have painted this subject I'm starting now: a clearing filled with grasses. It would have seemed too much of a jumble. I had to keep looking and drawing, and looking. Now, because of all that time I spent drawing these grasses, I know what I'm looking for.
~ Martin Gayford
it is only experience and disillusionment that make me cautious.
~ Martin Gilbert
The man who makes no mistakes never makes anything
~ Martin Gilbert
Gustavo Solivellas dice: El que tiene grandes pensamientos, a menudo comete grandes errores (Martin Heidegger)
~ Martin Heidegger
Initially we understand nothing at all, and for this reason we ask.
~ Martin Heidegger
Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from them, make more mistakes and learn anew. They must taste defeat as well as success, and discover how to live with each. Time and action are the teachers.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.