Quotes About Learning

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.

What is American education? What should our students be taught? Is hip-hop something that is worthwhile and useful for students to learn? Of course, if you're learning it from KRS-One, I would say yes.

What I like to say is that we're trying to develop a new generation of technologies that are worthy of the next generation of kids.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I wasn't great in class and suffered from dyslexia and ADHD; still do. As a result I could never sit in class listening quietly, and my attention would inevitably end up wandering after a short while.

I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

You can't make money on borrowed knowledge. If following Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was all it took to make money, a lot more people would be rich. It requires patience and you learn from mistakes.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.