Quotes About Learning

Smart is not something you are... Smart is something you get!

It's never too late to try a new approach to learning anything, and just because one has no expectation doesn't mean one has no hope.

Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

Information is cheap; understanding is expensive.

Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.

I greatly enjoyed these studies. Geshe Rabten communicated the ideas clearly and succinctly, then had us divide into pairs to pick apart in debate the details of what he had just taught. This was an excellent intellectual discipline. It made me aware of how much of my thinking was muddled. Without subjecting one's ideas to such scrutiny, it is easy and reassuring to cherish opinions that, in the end, are found to rest on the sloppiest of unexamined assumptions. This

Europe learned that Buddhism was "a Babylon of doctrines so intricate that no one can understand it properly, or describe it.

Self-confidence is not a form of arrogance. It is trust in our capacity to awaken. It is both the courage to face whatever life throws at us without losing equanimity, and the humility to treat every situation we encounter as one from which we can learn.

Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks.

But most of them, as you may have insinuated, Gine, do nothing but rehash their education, look up the theories of their predecessors, and debate them afresh.

The details to be left as an exercise to the student.

We don't come into the world fully made, like the birds and the mice. We have to learn how to live.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions, which is just as well, or it wouldn't be much of a career path, would it?

It is dangerous that by sudden invasions men shall be drawn to the use of his weapons before he hath skill how to use it

Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.

Math has never made any sense to me.

It's strange to think about your teachers as being people.

I almost didn't get an A in math, but then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking why? all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.

I almost didn't get an A in math, but then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking "why?" all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.

The teacher has assigned us a few chapters at a time, but I do not like to read books like

But then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking why? all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did.

The more you know, the sadder you get.

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.