Quotes About Learning

When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful!

the young man's blindness irreparable, his mistakes immutable, the consequences irreversible.

You could only remember your own mistake so as not to repeat it next time.

wish that I could somehow tell him what I knew now and help him for both our sakes to get it right, and a grief that such a thing was impossible, the young man's blindness irreparable, his mistakes immutable, the consequences irreversible.

Her English, though accented, was idiomatic. She would have learned it young enough to pick up the idiom, but not quite young enough to eradicate the accent.

For was it not true that when the student is ready, the teacher appears?

It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship.

One of the previous possessors of the stone was Chuang Tzu. He had a disciple who spent seven years studying universal energy and then demonstrated his wisdom by walking across the surface of a river and back again, and Chuang Tzu broke into tears. 'Oh, my boy!' he sobbed. 'My poor, poor, boy! You spent seven years of your life learning to do that, and all the while old Meng has been running a ferry not two miles from here, and he only charges two copper coins.

El error puede indicar el camino de la verdad, mientras que una cabeza hueca sólo conduce a una cabeza más hueca o bien a una carrera política.

Traveling encourages the revision of received wisdoms and the shedding of prejudices. It turns the mind toward a consideration of context and releases it from the dictatorship of absolute truths about humanity.

But it is not good to forget, not to face squarely, what happened

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions.

the modern university is a kind of intellectual shopping mall.

Students work to get good grades even when they have no interest in their studies.

Do not return to what you have vomited to eat it.

Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for . . . and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

The best-educated doctor in the world is standing on a low island in the middle of a sea of ignorance.

Lorsque tout va mal, laissez tomber et allez à la bibliothèque.

false enthusiasm does not come easily to six-year-olds … although, sad to say, it's a skill most of us learn fairly rapidly.

The lessons that are remembered the longest, Roland knew, are always the ones that are self-taught.

He taught me a lot. But before the teaching, he listened.

A child doesn't understand a hammer until he's mashed his finger at a nail. Get up and stop whining, maggot! You have forgotten the face of your father!

He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger – no supper, no breakfast.