Quotes About Learning

Harry S. Truman, in his typical no-nonsense style, once said that 'An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert.' Expert knowledge is absolutely necessary, but

One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world's people, those of the West included, are taught to believe rather than to think. It's much easier to believe than to think. People seldom think seriously about that which we are taught to believe, because we are all creatures of imitation and habit.

Make your mistakes in workouts or unimportant races.

Wisdom is in books,... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.

If there is any such thing as crime, then it is a crime to be uneducated.

Just remember what Satan says: I teach men what I learn from women!

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

Old age is the new childhood.

the Nazis, without admitting it, learned as much from American gangster organizations as their propaganda, admittedly, learned from American business publicity.

For goodness that is beyond virtue, and hence beyond temptation, ignorant of the argumentative reasoning by which man fends off temptations and, by this very process, comes to know the ways, of wickedness, is also incapable of learning the arts of persuading and arguing.

Each time you write something and you send it out into the world and it becomes public, obviously everybody is free to do with it what he pleases, and this is as it should be. I do not have any quarrel with this. You should not try to hold your hand now on whatever may happen to what you have been thinking for yourself. You should rather try to learn from what other people do with it.

For facts are stubborn; they do not disappear when historians or sociologists refuse to learn from them, though they may when everybody has forgotten them. In our case, such oblivion would not be academic, it would quite literally spell the end of the American Republic.

Writing is an integral part of the process of understanding.

Personally, I have learned to welcome the sensation of boredom when I'm working out because boredom can actually provide opportunities that are relaxing and, dare I say it, even useful.

Swiftly I learned that regardless of the source or when it was written, information relating to virginity is rarely presented in such a way that it is free of bias, superstition, or simply the kind of inaccuracies that often sneak into even academic books under the guise of things everybody knows.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now...

She was so young that love was still a game to her. . . . She was being neither fair nor clever, but Babette was only nineteen years old.

There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

language, which he had learnt from his mother. The corn-fields and meadows were surrounded by large forests, in the midst

A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.' The

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped, to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Kids don't come with instructions. We all mess up. Raising a child is pure impromptu.

I'd rather read than relax. I'd rather keep the mind engaged.