Quotes About Learning

Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

You can generally tell what processes a man's mind has gone through by what he's studied, observed.

it didn't seem I could know it until I had lived it.

The human individual is equipped to learn and go on learning prodigiously from birth to death, and this is precisely what sets him or her apart from all other known forms of life.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

A black belt is only one more step along an endless path, a license to go on learning for as long as you live.

Why does learning take place in spurts? Why can't we make steady upward progress on our way toward mastery? As we saw in the case of tennis, we have to keep practicing an unfamiliar movement again and again until we "get it in the muscle memory" or "program it into the autopilot.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself. Rather than being frustrated while on the plateau, you learn to appreciate and enjoy it just as much as you do the upward surges.

If you study calligraphy, you will find that those who are not so clever usually become the best calligraphers. Those who are very clever with their hands often encounter great difficulty after they have reached a certain stage. This is also true in art, and in life." The best horse, according to Suzuki, may be the worst horse. And the worst horse can be the best, for if it perseveres, it will have learned whatever it is practicing all the way to the marrow of its bones.

The best horse, according to Suzuki, may be the worst horse. And the worst horse can be the best, for if it perseveres, it will have learned whatever it is practicing all the way to the marrow of its bones.

Perhaps the best you can hope for on the master's journey—whether your art be management or marriage, badminton or ballet—is to cultivate the mind and heart of the beginning at every stage along the way. For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

Where in our upbringing, our schooling, our career are we explicitly taught to value, to enjoy, even to love the plateau, the long stretch of diligent effort with no seeming progress?

To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.

For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.

What we call "mastery" can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.

Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading