Quotes About Learning

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

It was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting. JACK WELCH ON HIS JOB AT AGE TWELVE AS A CADDY FOR LOCAL BUSINESSMEN AT A SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, COUNTRY CLUB

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Technical knowledge, divorced from what it is supposed to be knowledge of, yields only the illusion of understanding. It's like being able to reel off the locations in a baseball field -- first base, second base, third base, home plate, left field, right field, center field, pitcher's mound -- without having the slightest clue as to how they function in a game. You can talk the talk, but you can't walk the walk.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

human words are at best tentative, being true only in so far as they align with the revelation of the Bible. We are not a cadre of superior believers who reach from their lofty heights to assist those of inferior development along the way. Rather, we are fellow travelers along the path of life who desire to share what we have learned about God and His dealings. The call is to those who read to come along and let us learn together about the riches of our Lord.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

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Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.

that weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned the things that pass for knowledge I can't understand

Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.

more the territory of our knowledge expands, the longer the boundary between that territory and what we don't know

extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.

It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. It's much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

Celui qui n'est pas passionné devient tout au plus un pédagogue; c'est toujours par l'intérieur qu'il faut aller aux choses, toujours, toujours en partant de la passion.

And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I would try to persuade him to devote himself first to the work of someone greater, interpreting or translating him.

What one's muscles have missed can be made up later; the élan toward the intellectual, the soul's inner grasping power, is set in motion in those decisive formative years, and only he who has learned early to spread his soul out wide may later hold the entire world within himself.

should judge the aptitude of a child not by his memory but by the testimony of his life… Let the young man read and sift and verify, not just accept the authority in good faith. A rich variety of opinions must be presented to him. He will make his choice, and if he cannot, then he will remain in doubt. He who sheep-like follows another follows nothing. He discovers nothing, because he seeks nothing.

Klug sein hat noch nie einen Menschen an Dummheiten gehindert.

Wat een mens zijn spieren tekort heeft laten komen, kan later nog worden ingehaald; maar opstijgen naar het geestelijke, de innerlijke kracht van de ziel, kan alleen in die beslissende vormende jaren worden geoefend, en alleen wie vroeg heeft geleerd zijn ziel te vergroten, kan later de hele wereld in zich opnemen.