Quotes About Learning

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

Mother lode of learning.

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.