Quotes About Learning

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Wasn't that the way life always worked? To learn a hard truth too late- was that better than never learnig it at all? Possible not. At least, if one never discovered what one wanted, one could never miss not having it.

At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken by narrator Ava Bigtree in Swamplandia!)

This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

I had an ear for languages, and I could read before I could adequately wash myself. I probably could have vied with Jeanette for the number one spot, but I'd seen what happened if you gave in to your natural aptitudes. This wasn't like the woods, where you had to be your fastest and your strongest and your bravest self. Different sorts of calculations were required to survive at the home.

My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.

View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, "What was I thinking," breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, "What was I learning?

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me

Celebrate effort, not outcome

There is a gain in every pain

Your past is where you learned the lesson. Now is when you get to apply it.

View your life with kindsight. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, 'What was I thinking?' pause and ask the kinder question: 'What was I learning?

View life with kindness and insight. Don't beat yourself up for things that happened in the past. Though some past situations may make you wonder why you did the things you did, stop to breathe and ask the better question: 'What did I learn?

Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.

Those who refuse to acknowledge the past are condemned to repeat it.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

There are times when fear needs to be in the driver's seat. The best learning and growing happens when wisdom is won from pain.

It's not about how well I did. It's about how far I've come, and how far I still have to go. It's about being okay with not being the best, because there are a million and one things out there to try until I do find the thing that I'm good at and that makes me happy.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

To have power means not to have to give in, and to force the environment or the other person to do so. Power in this narrow sense is the priority of output over intake, the ability to talk instead of listen. In a sense, it is the ability to afford not to learn.

I loved education, which is why I spent as little time as possible in school.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.