Quotes About Learning

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

All you can do, every day, is to learn the truth as best you can.

Daniel Dennett, a consciousness theorist, famously said that scholars are a library's way of making another library.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

What's so wonderful about experiments is that often they don't work. They do blow up in the oven; the Bride of Frankenstein does crawl out and strangle you with a black leotard while you shout your last prayers. It's only once you've tasted your own shocking failures, harebrained ideas, and sudden departures that you will realize something quite wonderful.

And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them.

It's our children who teach us how to be parents.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

Dr. Heissman laughed and immediately apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm just so used to what I think of as squeezing water from a stone syndrome. SpecWar operators are not big on admitting to what they perceive to be a weakness. Even though awareness of vulnerability ultimately leads to strength. Either from directly dealing with the issue or learning to work around it.

You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.

I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.

Well, you better learn fast. You've got about as much charm as a dead slug," says Haymitch.

It takes some adjusting from a bow to a gun, but by the end of the day, I've got the best score in my class.

You get the feeling that the knot-tying class is not the Hunger Games hot spot.

De vegades a les persones els passen coses per a les quals, en aquell moment, no estan preparades.

Los cerebros jóvenes a veces compensan la falta de experiencia con su idealismo.

Plie is the first thing you learn and the last thing you master.

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.

Of course, all knowledge is useful. But not all knowledge is worth the cost.