Quotes About Learning

If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of unsolicited advice.

I have reached a conclusion: there is no such thing as inspiration. I thought so once, and made an ass of myself accordingly.

It is important to remember that, in strictness, there is no such thing as an uneducated man.

Eggs cannot be unscrambled.

Pain gives you the memory of things you shouldn't do.

During this lesson, teach them how to absorb knowledge as opposed to just memorizing. Teach them to become individual thinkers and not part of the majority that agrees with what is popular--afraid to stand alone in their thinking.

To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved.

There are so goddamn many ways to be a fool a man can't expect to avoid them all.

If I have learned anything in a lifetime spent overseeing schools, it is that childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

Mislim da ste i vi uvideli kako je teško sagledati i najo?igledniju istinu, kako ?ovek, uopšte, sporo u?i i kako skupo pla?a to malo što u svom kratkom veku nau?i.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

It doesn't matter what road you take, hill you climb, or path you're on, you will always end up in the same place, learning. — Ralph Stevenson

HAD I NOT SPENT SO MUCH TIME DOING SOMETHING THAT MADE ME SO MISERABLE, I WOULD HAVE NEVER LEARNED HOW TO APPRECIATE DOING WHAT BRINGS ME JOY.  

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.

Sharing what you've learned and helping others is a good source of renewal.

NO CHOICE IS A BAD CHOICE; EVERY CHOICE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LEARNING TO UNFOLD.

Qhuinn dived into the plane, pulled himself into the pilot's seat, and tried to make sense of all the…fucking hell, there were a lot of dials. The only saving grace he had was that he'd— Rat-tat-tat-tat! —watched enough movies to know that the lever with the grip was the gas and the bow tie–shaped wheel was the thing you pulled up to go up, and pushed down to go down. "Fuck," he muttered as he stayed in a tuck position as much as he could.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.

Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men have abundant opportunity today to learn what can be said against Christianity, and it is only fair that they should also learn something about the thing that is being attacked.

Perhaps it does us good to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don't break.

The answer, of course, was that the stories had been written as well as could be expected given the tools I had when I wrote them. Every writer starts with the same toolbox, which at most might contain a screwdriver and a pair of rusty pliers, and there's not much you can make with that. Each finished story adds a new tool to the box that assists in the construction of better stories going forward, and reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the prior work.

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

what a school was: a building designed to aid in gaining new knowledge, communicating it to others, and applying it in invention. This was a revelation. His creators needed

If children don't push the edges now and again, what's the point of being a child?