Quotes About Learning

Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can call up information about a topic that would have taken years to collect. Young people graduate with more knowledge than ever before—but in spite of their knowledge, they are confused, bewildered, frustrated, and without moral moorings.

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.

If a child is to survive, he or she must know the rules of safety. If he is to be healthy, he must know the rules of health. If he is to drive a car, he must know the rules of the road. If he is to become a ball player, he must learn the rules of the game. And, contrary to popular thinking, children appreciate rules.

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

Sin embargo, mientras más conocimiento adquirimos, menos sabiduría parecemos tener. Mientras más seguridad económica tenemos, más aburridos e inseguros nos sentimos.

Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.

Partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all if we educate the mind but not the soul.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. —Helen Keller

I'm a history nut.

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll.

I have not failed, not once," he said. "I have discovered ten thousand ways that don't work." I

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

I never learned anything by losing.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality. We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.

Do not force to be a victor always, learn to gain more when you lose in every situation. Failure is a great guidance which no one can afford you because it normally wasteful and painful.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.