Quotes About Learning

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Ignorance is the mother of presumption

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.