Quotes About Learning

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

Life is a practice.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

The only true path to wisdom is through experience and reflection.

The horse isn't so different from us. In order to learn, you have to make mistakes. Then you recalibrate, make a decision, try something different, and try again.

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.

You can't learn less.

Every child is born a genius.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

When the student is ready, the master appears.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

Being beaten by your student was the ultimate victory, for a teacher.

I had a teacher who used to reflect back my questions that way. I thought it was the Socratic method, and it impressed me immensely, until I found out he used it whenever he didn't know the answer.

You write what you know because -- like there's another choice? The trick is to try and know as much as possible.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

The villager may have this hidden wisdom as clearly as the man who has seen and done, who has fought, loved and travelled far and well.