Quotes About Learning

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Those who know the least about theology and the Bible often out-preach—or at least out-fascinate—those who are well studied.

Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

My growing was definitely a series of adventures, followed by bumps, bruises, and many scoldings.

What makes you ask that?" (...) "Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer.

sometimes it's the worst things in life that have the most to teach us. You take what you can, and as for the ugly parts, well—you 'leave it go and get on with the business of living,

and 1866, Pissarro acknowledged his influences from Melbye and Corot, whom he listed

Si vamos a hacer algo vale la pena comenzar a hacerlo aunque sea rudimentariamente hasta que aprendamos a hacerlo bien, pero empezar a hacerlo ya mismo con lo que tenemos hoy

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds," she says, uttering the phrase as if secrets to the universe have just been shared. "Perhaps that is how learning can help you. However, first you must see it, feel it, and then believe it. When you do, where it takes you may surprise.

Good stories teach!

Stories are often layered with meaning. If you don't learn from a story's message, if you gloss over or dismiss it--even if it's a message with which you don't agree--then you have wasted not only your time but the writer's time as well.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside- and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment....'They knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.' p. 90

Hemingway said it aptly: 'We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

Books taught me how to think.

Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit. ~Laura Hecox

Nobody's perfect, Jack. Nobody's life is perfect. We've all said things we regret. Done things we're horribly ashamed of. But we can't go back and change it. All we can do is learn to live with what we've done, and try not to make the same mistakes in the future.

The world is a great book, of which those who never leave home read but a page.

knowledge is power, and power not properly utilised is a wasted resource

The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.