Quotes About Learning

Voilà notre état véritable. C'est ce qui resserre nos connaissances en de certaines bornes que nous ne pas sons pas, incapables de savoir tout, et d'ignorer tout absolument.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge, but its quality. You can know many things without knowing that which is most important. There are two types of ignorance, the pure, natural ignorance into which all people are born, and the ignorance of the so-called wise. You will see that many among those who call themselves scholars do not know real life, and they despise simple people and simple things.

It is better to know something about everything than to know everything about something.

i've forgotten more than you'll ever know

The longer you live, the better you get.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I had turned in any old one to live it. If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library -everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

If I wanted to be a painter, I might think about trying to be like Van Gogh, or if I was an actor, act like Laurence Olivier. If I was an architect, there's Frank Gehry. But you can't just copy somebody. If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

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I love how intimate I've become with failure.

Early failure is usually better than early success, because the lesson in humility lasts a long time and makes you more effective over the long term.

Before you can inspire your players to "win," you have to show them how not to lose.

I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it."  Pablo Picasso.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that counts. -Bob Proctor

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.

C. S. Lewis said we don't need to be taught new ideas so much as to be reminded of old truths.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus.

He doesn't like intellectuals. Trump was a guy who "never went to class. Never got the syllabus. Never took a note. Never went to a lecture. The night before the final, he comes in at midnight from the fraternity house, puts on a pot of coffee, takes your notes, memorizes as much as he can, walks in at 8 in the morning and gets a C.

The president left. Among the principals there was exasperation with these questions. Why are we having to do this constantly? When is he going to learn? They couldn't believe they were having these conversations and had to justify their reasoning. Mattis was particularly exasperated and alarmed, telling close associates that the president acted like—and had the understanding of—"a fifth or sixth grader.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.