Quotes About Learning

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

On how to become a good speaker: Practice all the time. One of the best ways is to put a bunch of marbles in your mouth while you talk. Slowly but surely you take away a marble. And then, when you've lost all your marbles, you're a public speaker.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.

You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.