Quotes About Learning

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

I remember, when I started acting officially, I was unbelievably green. My first audition tapes were just horrendous.

I'm no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I'll emit an unbroken 10-minute 'um' through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.

I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.