Quotes About Learning

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

we have noticed a single type of praise that is almost magical in its positive, lifelong effects on children: praise for trying something new.

The sessions with Mr. Dubois continued, but it was in the private parlor of Abigail Braddock that Sarah Biddle received the greatest knowledge, for in Mrs. Braddock's private parlor Sarah Biddle learned not only to read books, but also to love them.

Looking back over fifty years of science and environmental education, I find that the main thing I have taught is how to pay attention.

Consider telling those you teach that no matter how it feels to the new knitter, a dropped stitch has never actually caused stroke, heart failure, or a world war.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

We blossom not in spite of but because of. I think of every experience as my teacher, most especially the difficult ones. I believe this is the role of suffering. Suffering cracks us open to allow for new light. Yet, we can choose to accept the light or hide under our bushel.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

Kids learn not so much from what they're taught as from what they do.

they get frustrated more easily, and they just don't seem to learn from their mistakes.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.