Quotes About Learning

Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

But we didn't know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we'd grown up with.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

For more than two decades I have tried, honestly and respectfully, to walk the difficult line between the world of Native America and the world of those of us whose people came, willingly or otherwise, to these American shores. I have done this because I believe that we, as Americans, are poorly served by our willful avoidance of the true facts of our national experience, and also because I believe that the lives and ways of the Native American peoples have much to teach us all. It

The way we see it, the Creator put his lessons everywhere. Built them right into the earth before he even put people here. Our job is to learn those lessons in the place we were given, and the way to learn those lessons is to sit still and listen.

A man of little learning deems that little a great deal; a frog, never having seen the ocean, considers its well a great sea.

He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is full of learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of understanding?he, being replete with these seven things, is esteemed a wise man.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Stupid people can learn a language quiet and easy because there is nothing going on in there to keep it out.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

We can say nothing but what hath been said.

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured.

Before reading this book, I did not understand that my power and my commitment to fighting oppression lay in finding those places where my experiences of privilege and oppression seem to be at odds with one another. Lorde's work and life taught me that I must not be afraid to go to those complex and "messy" places to understand myself, the history of my people, and to learn how to use my identities in a clear and subversive way.

I do not really think Charlie knows much more about politics, history, or economics than I do. Like myself he was hit by a make-up towel almost before he was out of diapers.

Education is in no small measure preparing the way for the intellectual life and pointing to it. Those who cannot enter in at its gates are doomed, in Leonardo da Vinci's words, to "possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world." For them life must be short, however many its years, and barren, however plentiful its acts. Their ears are deaf to the call of the indwelling Reason, and their eyes are blind to all the meaning and the values of human experience.

Assignments? no problem let me see and get you some good content for your college.

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds