Quotes About Learning

The future will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.

A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things. http://diggingupthefuture.wordpress.com/

if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast.

for a schoolroom without a physical atlas is like a needle without an eye)

Lawyers, I suppose were once children.

Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilise, and then burn the world? There is a March of Science. But who shall beat the drums, for its retreat?

Beware the man of one book. He sleeps in his armour.

Someone has said, Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance. I agree.

Biblical wisdom is a process that begins with gaining knowledge, then choosing to set aside our former ways of thinking, and then putting this new knowledge into practice.

The offering had been meager, the miracle dramatic, and the provision abundant, but the lesson was not yet complete.

Pay attention: There will be an exam later.

WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. In our youth, if we survive them, they're called learning experiences or teachable moments or some-such. And that which does not maim or kill us usually makes us stronger, albeit sometimes also sadder and more cynical.

Please excuse my lack of depth; I'm a generalist, not a specialist. Why bother learning all that biochemistry stuff—or how to design a building, or conn a boat, or balance accounts, or solve equations, or comfort the dying—when you can get other people to do all that for you in exchange for a blow job?)

Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way—

Some of my people are well on their way to becoming formidable practitioners (like Alex, but best not to tell the little oik that).

you can't learn from a fatal mistake.

Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

Everything that happens to me is designed to better prepare me for serving others, everything!

The writer was coming into maturity, looking at life and death as if they were the same, a coming from darkness and a returning to it, a brief, bright, glorious span that was often marred by man's own incapacity to learn and trust.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do no wish to happen.

Their eagerness to learn was replaced by a bizarre and erroneous notion that education is somehow a competition, not a process whereby a person becomes more capable and complete. There is even a term for the elite high school students most consumed by this phenomenon: "crispies"—because they have burned out. On

The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end

But it's not perfect. The GPA does not reflect the difficulty of the courses that different students may have taken.