Quotes About Learning

When I was twenty, I thought I knew everything there was to know. By thirty, I realised I didn't know shit. I had spent ten years learning things that I would then spend ten years having to unlearn.

Andar no es un deporte. El deporte es una cuestión de técnicas y de reglas, de resultados y de competición, y todo ello requiere un largo aprendizaje: conocer las posiciones, dominar los gestos adecuados. Y, mucho después, vienen la improvisación y el talento.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Dime lo que lees y te diré quien eres; eso es verdad, pero te conoceré mejor si me dices lo que relees".

Ignorance est mère de tous les maux.

a aquello que se ha aprendido, a la par que se sigue aprendiendo—

But, in reality, being unhappy might also teach him something about happiness.

que dit le professeur, ils comprennent la moitié de ce qu'ils ont écouté, ils retiennent la moitié de ce qu'ils ont compris, et ils se servent de la moitié de ce qu'ils ont retenu, c'est-à-dire pas grand-chose, à la fin.

Ah God! Had I but studiedIn the days of my foolish youth.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Theoretically, the curriculum consists of the "seven liberal arts."2 But schools rarely teach all seven of the arts, and the emphasis is very unequal. These "arts" are "liberal" because their purpose is not moneymaking and because they are worthy of a free man. There are seven mainly because people are fond of the number seven, one of the keys to a numerologically ordered universe.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

He was bellowing a great many words that were new to Mosca and sounded quite interesting. She memorized them for future use.

No, nobody would ever call Neverfell 'my lady'. She was still a 'miss' all the way – misunderstanding, making mistakes, getting into misadventures.

That is a judgment upon me for seeking to extend your vocabulary. If I hear you using such words to describe a duke in my hearing again, I shall put you on a diet of dry verbs and water until you have learned to speak more wisely.

You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Acepta la vida tal como es, no quieras que sea otra cosa. Y no esperes grandes acontecimientos. Piensa que la existencia cotidiana es tu verdadera escuela; el resto son actividades extraescolares.

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