Quotes About Learning

I have a silly habit of making knee-jerk and somewhat dogmatic statements which are rapidly proved wrong.

And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.

Living with my mother is like living with Winnie the Pooh. She has many adventures, getting herself into and out of trouble guilelessly, and all of these adventures are accompanied by a few lines of gentle philosophy. There's always a little bit more to learn every time you get your head stuck in a honey pot if you're my mother.

I thought to myself that there really were so many simple ways we could make ourselves look less like idiots.

In 1979, Dubai had learned a valuable lesson from the Iranian Revolution and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: trouble has its bright side.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically. I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.

We all know how to be a child.

Never tell a child that something it's too hard

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, Poor truant, passionate fool! Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school? A poem by Charles Hanson Towne

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

I begin to call Morrie "Coach," the way I used to address my high school track coach. Morrie likes the nickname. "Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now.

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

Have you ever known a man of faith? Did you run the other way? If so, stop running. Maybe sit for a minute. For a glass of ice water. For a plate of corn bread. You may find there is something beautiful to learn, and it doesn't bite you and it doesn't weaken you, it only proves a divine spark lies inside each of us, and that spark may one day save the world.

Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more.

Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. -Morrie-

the classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork. They went

Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.