Quotes About Learning

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.

My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.

We all play by the same rules. But some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.

Ayrton Senna. He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he. A great man, he was. A great man, he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

We all play by the same rules; it's just that some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.

we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen,

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval church of actively opposing the advancement of scientific learning, the other praising the medieval church and its theology for laying a foundation that made modern science possible.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history.

it's not the solution, it's the path to the solution that is fascinating

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

You don't have to say ridiculous things twice, Holling. Once is more than enough.

You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.

Teachers don't reckon time the way normal people do.

Common observation confirms that a mobile, exploring toddler learns faster and more efficiently than the child whose feet never leave the couch and whose eyes never leave the T.V. screen.

As a parent, you can't completely avoid making mistakes. Accept it.

What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the "life of the mind": thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

There's nothing like failure and humiliation to make you teachable.

An hour spent in any bookstore will also tune you in to what the world is thinking (and writing about), what is hot, what is popular, what the trends are. Just browsing, without even buying anything, is an education in itself.

It has been said that intelligence is not about knowing everything, but about knowing where to find everything.)

repeated failure is key to doing bold things, to being entrepreneurial. Try stuff, fail, fail fast, try again. When Sam Walton was asked why Walmart was so successful, he said, "We do a lot of things right." Then asked how they did things right, he said, "Because we did them wrong the first time.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." – Steve Jobs