Quotes About Learning

KNOWLEDGE NOT SHARED REMAINS UNKNOWN. —LUIGI L. LEMONCELLO

Because, my dear friends, these twelve children have lived their entire lives without a public library. As a result, they have no idea how extraordinarily useful, helpful, and funful - a word I recently invented - a library can be. This is their chance to discover that a library is more than a collection of dusty old books. It is a place to learn, explore, and grow! -Mr. Lemoncello

And for the first time in his life, Kyle Keeley wanted to check out a library book more than anything in the world.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible -Dr. Zinchencko

Open a Book and Open Your Mind.

Sometimes knowing how to find the answers and what questions to ask are more important than the answers themselves. - Mr. Lemoncello

Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past, remain children. They live in an illusion.

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.

I'm not a natural. I had to teach myself - or be taught - everything I do. I just spent hours and hours in the mirror mimicking Michael Jackson.

At the end of every season I look in the mirror and ask myself what can I do better? Where did I screw up this year?

Often dyslexic kids will excel in being a little bit mischievous or tying to find attention in other ways because they're not getting it in class.

There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

If you don't know something completely, you tend to have a misconception.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

Very quickly, kids take your plan and say, 'Ha!' so you have to learn to be adaptable, or you will be literally miserable.

First semester I took classes like econ and that kind of stuff, and I was miserable.

We learn by misfortune.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

If I have misplaced a pass, I want to know why I've done that or whether I could have looked at a different pass.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.