Quotes About Learning

It's only after we have felt the sting of remorse and become present to the costs of our confusion that we're given the chance to redeem ourselves with a pledge to do things differently.

I encourage you, therefore, to hold your imperfections tenderly. Value the learning of life lessons as an important part of becoming a wise and mature human being.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. WINSTON CHURCHILL

When you seek to know all of the answers, your life then becomes limited by that which you already know. When you seek to ask deep and relevant questions, your life is only limited by the extent of your courage and willingness to learn and to try something new.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

In a 1977 interview with Christianity Today, Billy Graham said, "One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less. People have pressured me into speaking to groups when I should have been studying and preparing.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

To keep the place running smoothly, students' behavior becomes more important than their understanding, acquiescence more valued than inquiry

I know that the way he comes into a classroom, he wants the students to leave knowing math. This makes me open my mind to what he has to say and how he's trying to say it.

Aeschylus. He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Tis said that wisdom comes to those who seek it." -Christopher

but what about students with exceptional intelligence who could compensate?

When I want to know a thing, I resort to books and feel strangely exposed without books to fall back on, as though standing on a ledge.

You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there's a bit of room for manoeuvre. To some extent, you can be author of your own fate. At least, that's what I'd been lucky enough to learn. THE GANNETRY the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea —W.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

From him I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been.

The lover of books is a miner, searching for gold.

At an interreligious conference of Buddhist and Christian monastics held not long ago at a Trappist monastery, a reporter asked the Dalai Lama what he would say to Americans who want to become Buddhists. "Don't bother," he said. "Learn from Buddhism, if that is good for you. But do it as a Christian, a Jew, or whatever you are. And be a good friend to us.

When I would begin to apologize for my spotty education, stating that I often felt that my passionate, haphazard reading has given me some of the faults of the autodidact, he would speak up and praise my "native intelligence." Those were healing words for me to hear...

For some reason we human beings seem to learn best how to love when we're a bit broken, when our plans fall apart, when our myths of our self-sufficiency and goodness and safety are shattered.

Put your nose in a book. That's the best thing for you.

No matter what passes, for good or ill, it is always better to know.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.