Quotes About Learning

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

to swim, "Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim." When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. People have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern

When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying to swim, "Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim." When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Hercule was thoughtful, learned and well read, something of an inspiration to Bruno, who was learning that he need not be limited by the inadequacies of his own schooling but that he could read for himself, learn by himself, think for himself.

Older and wiser people had helped him when he was making the inevitable mistakes that came with a lack of experience. He should do the same for her.

The fewer mistakes you make twice, the easier life is.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren't flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

Each of our major Ways to Think results from turning certain resources on while turning certain others off—and thus changing some ways that our brains behave.

Nearly two thousand years ago a sage named Ben Bag-Bag insisted that students must go deeper, turning the biblical text over and over again: "Turn it over and over because everything is in it and reflect upon it and wax grey and old over it and do not leave it, for you have no better lot than that" (Abot 5:22).

I find television,radio very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

And there are no shortcuts or substitutes for "constant practice" when it comes to developing spiritual discernment—

No knowledge is wasted

She had to learn this painful lesson. And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole.

Einstein said the only source of knowledge is experience.

When would he learn humility?

To feel nature as a child is much more important than just being able to list names of birds, or plants or animals. That kind of heart isn't something you can teach a child in books.

I'm sure that's true. Nonetheless, Nate has to learn to face the consequences of his actions. You will not be able to protect him from all of life's difficult moments, you know. No parent can. All we can do is to let him go through them and learn from them. To give him the tools he needs.

No time is really wasted unless one never learns the lessons that it offers.

We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow.

but most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually.

Tis what marriage is all about, madam, he said. Have you not realized it? 'Tis about discovering unknown facets of the character and experience and taste of one's spouse and learning to adjust one's life accordingly. 'Tis learning to hope that one's spouse is doing the same thing.

Perhaps we should do the learning - and learn not to communicate, or to do it in a different way. Now there is a thought. Perhaps we could learn your peace if we could share your silence.