Quotes About Learning

You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.

The mark of a good officer, Wegener repeatedly told his youngsters, was willingness to admit he had something yet to learn.

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

you also learn a lot of things, because he's a dazzlingly effective teacher.

Army instructors are taught that if the student fails to learn, it is because the instructor failed to teach properly.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

supported by Dr. Paul Bellow—Temple University, Philadelphia

he'd learned that in the field of medicine, the really smart ones were the teachers, unlike the rest of society.

The fact that he hated and feared his new environment was largely beside the point, for he had been taught long ago that what he thought and felt about any given subject was without question the least important thing in the world.

I'm quite comfortable with making the odd mistake, if it comes in the pursuit of new opportunities and new ideas Rob Fyfe, Air New Zealand CEO

Creative confidence is like a muscle—it can be strengthened and nurtured through effort and experience.

Instead of long lectures followed by exercises, most of our classes at the d.school give students a little instruction up front and then get them working on a project or a challenge. We follow up in debriefs to reflect on what succeeded—and what can be learned from things that didn't work.

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Some subjects mixed well with weed, but Chemistry wasn't one of them.

Stan and Rudy are grown men. It's too late to shape their minds, to teach them values and a sense of compassion. You have to do that when kids are young, before their personalities harden and they come to love their own ignorance.

I've paid my dues," I told him. "I've learned a lot from Jack Weede, and from you, and I've formed strong working relationships throughout the building. With all due respect, I believe I'm the most qualified person to lead Green Meadow High School into the twenty-first century.

It is a lesson that one has to learn continually in New Orleans. Things are always more complex than they seem.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto.

On second thought, it's unlikely that anybody can teach another to excel in bed. Rather, what they might do is awaken in the other her or his predisposition for copulative excellence.

nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.