Quotes About Learning

I don't have to trust my instructors—I just have to learn from them.

I believe in books.

good for my thighs; all this humping of books, good for my biceps.

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.

The book is man's best invention so far.

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.

Of all the forms in which ideas are disseminated, the college professor lecturing his class is the slowest and the most expensive. You don't have to go to college to learn about the great ideas of Western man. If you want to learn about Milton, or Camus, or even Margaret Mead, you can find them. In paperback. In the library.

Sometimes we speak and feel too much as if 'an education' were a finished product, to be bought and paid for, often with great sacrifice, and bestowed. In reality, education can only be attained by personal effort, and should be for each a continuing process, ending only with life itself, or possibly then just well begun. There are fortunately many roads to personal culture and usefulness, and not all lead through the college campus.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

If there's one thing I've learned about Ivy League people, Beck, it's that you all really like going back to school for reunions.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

I'm 38 and I'm single and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. —Albert Einstein

As a result, our biological baseline is to be on our feet, moving and thinking at the same time. If we don't do it, our brains make the sensible decision to save energy by cutting brain capacity. In better news, when we get on our feet and move, it primes the brain to be alert and to learn.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Jesus didn't come just to tweak things, but to overthrow the kingdom of this world. We are slow to learn and need more stories to help us catch God's kingdom vision and even to help us make sense of the example Jesus sets for us.

The word theologian doesn't appear in the Bible. Old Testament writers used a warmer, user-friendly expression, describing people who "walked with God." A theologian takes a long walk through life with God — living in his presence, going his way, learning to see the world through his eyes, and getting to know his character so that trusting him in the dark

The objective of education is to increase possibilities for the child to invent and discover. Words should not be used as a shortcut to knowledge. Like Piaget, we agree that the aim of teaching is to provide conditions for learning.

With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness -- learn something new.