Quotes About Learning

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

Are we still lecturing—which, as the writer George Leonard observed, is the "best way to get information from teacher's notebook to student's notebook without touching the student's mind"?

I'm pretty sure the past is only good for one thing and that's getting a person where they are at the present.

Back in the 1800s, girls learned to sew as early as age four. Many of the girls at Kings Landing had never really used a needle and thread before. Being older didn't make their lesson any easier. "I'm always pricking myself," said Krista. "Look on the bright side," said Sarah, "burning yourself on the stove is worse.

There's no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

What the hell did magic wands have to do with helping girls learn math and science? He'd been good at both. He could have helped them with math and science. Weren't these girls supposed to be building skills? Screw magic wands. He'd have handed out some fucking calculators.

Kakve koristi od životnih lekcija ako ih zanemarujemo?

You're so used to feeling superior that you've forgotten there are people who might know something you don't.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

You're the one who taught me that there is truth below the surface of tales. That we can learn courage from them. That they can teach us how to live our lives.

Tell me about Stackpole then... Like I am now, but smaller.

You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.

Children soak up both verbal and nonverbal messages like sponges—indiscriminately. They listen to their parents, they watch their parents, and they imitate their parents' behavior. Because they have little frame of reference outside the family, the things they learn at home about themselves and others become universal truths engraved deeply in their minds.

I'm afraid we're stuck with Kant and his"crooked timber of humanity, from which no straight thing was ever made." If we're going to build another world, it will be from this crooked timber and no other, so we'd better start learning the necessary carpentry.

Come, little one, and let us learn of love.

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

But there is yet another prejudice that dyslexics, and those who try to help them, have to combat. This is the deep-rooted idea that all learning, all education, any expression of ideas, must be done through language, through words. The idea that is possible to learn and communicate visually, through colour and shape, seems to be heresy, though it is one that naturally occurs to dyslexics.

There are some temptations that cannot be resisted, some lessons we never learn.