Quotes About Learning

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

I've married a few people I shouldn't have but haven't we all?

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough is what I'm saying.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

Education and Training For Life

Books are keys that open many doors.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.