Quotes About Learning

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child.

School is pure psycology warfare.

So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don't know shit.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

We must not forget that the most enduring modifications in toys are never the work of adults, whether they be educators, manufacturers or writers, but are the result of children at play.

Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

Writing for late night is really good for learning how to write when you don't want to write. You have to produce every day. It's also very good for refining the difference between your point of view and the host's.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

When you work for someone, you never realise how much you are learning. It is only when you leave and you reflect back on life.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

Being injured gives you the chance to reflect on the players who play in your position, too. You see things you can do, things you can maybe do better.

I study my fans all the time, and what I learn from them will definitely be reflected in my future work.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.

While reflecting on past relationships and learning from them can be helpful, February isn't the best time to try and gain insight.

In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.