Quotes About Learning

2Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.

May I laugh, listen, learn, and love. And tomorrow, if it comes, may I do so again. A new day awaits you, my friend. A new season in which you will worry less and trust more. A season with reduced fear and enhanced faith. Can you imagine a life in which you are anxious for nothing? God can. And, with his help, you will experience it.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. MATTHEW 11:29 (NIV)

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to take in the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.

I am not ready to die, But I am learning to trust death As I have trusted life. I am moving Toward a new freedom

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

But when Ellen throws at me that I have never had to struggle I feel like saying, 'Maybe. But I have had to learn to be capable in a hundred ways that were no pleasure or nourishment really. If I had not been rich, I might have become a good painter.' Instead, right now I had better get the silver out and see what needs polishing.

The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know... if one is honest.

I learned about marriage from my parents and their good, fruitful, but painful and not complete marriage, and from my own private life and the men and women whom I have loved.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelo

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize.

I wouldn't miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which called forth a djinn who was to serve me all my life: books.

Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.