Quotes About Learning

The old man was as passionately fond of science as we were. He knew how the World was made and was eager to pass that knowledge on to me.

Their love story unfolded and then folded up again in Cambridge, as I watched and took mental notes and learned nothing, naturally, because the heart is unteachable.

Förståelse föds ur ödmjukhet, inte ur allvetandets högmod.

La comprensión nace de la humildad, no del orgullo de saber.

Cometer errores es natural, irse sin haberlos comprendido hace que se vuelva vano el sentido de una existencia.

Empieza por tener un diario -en una libreta o bien por ordenador- en el que escribir sobre los sucesos, retos, conflictos, sorpresas y aprendizajes de tu vida cotidiana.

Amazing how a little thing like that can cause a misunderstanding. Everyone makes mistakes, Marvin. Don't feel bad.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.

At the Seattle Aquarium, Sammy the giant Pacific octopus enjoyed playing with a baseball-size plastic ball that could be screwed together by twisting the two halves. A staffer put food inside the ball but later was surprised to find that not only had the octopus opened the ball, it had screwed it back together when it was done.

most of my teachers have been animals. What have animals taught me about life? How to be a good creature.

All you have to do is recognize them as teachers and be ready to hear their truths.

Just about every animal," Scott says—not just mammals and birds—" can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy." Once you find the right way to work with an animal, be it an octopus or an anaconda, together, you can accomplish what even Saint Francis might have considered a miracle.

teachers are all around to help you: with four legs or two or eight or even none; some with internal skeletons, some without. All you have to do is recognize them as teachers and be ready to hear their truths.

Confusion is the first step toward clarity

But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to be learned from every moment, every experience we encounter during the brief time we spend on this planet. Call it fate, call it destiny, call it what you will; it really doesn't matter.

From a recording: If you're listening to this in your car and you find yourself in a beautiful feeling, roll down your window, pop the tape out of the tape player, and throw it out the window. Stay with the feeling, and it will teach you everything you need to know.

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, failures, and knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful!

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. —TRIBE UNKNOWN

If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. –Arapaho

fondle a plump plastic-wrapped volume, crack it's often-cracked back and spread open the pages. Swallow what's in there, whatever it is. Devour the words.

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book. I plan to give this book to you and know you'll read it, so our minds may meet across these pages, in the colorful country of another writer's language, where we can flourish in the knowledge that we are learning how to speak to one another; and so our mouths will know what to do when they finally come together.

Sometimes college seemed merely an endless exhausting string of appointments.

This was, of course, the tenth or hundredth beauty of loving someone new: you were introduced to books you had not read before