Quotes About Learning

We always teach best what we most need to learn.

Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction.

You know, you don't see with your eyes You see with your brain And the more words your brain has The more things you can see

He had kept Bihzad illiterate, so that he would discover his own secrets before he discovered the secrets in books, before words and numbers spoilt his love for glowing images.

The consequence of such mingling is that an individual who enters the communications system pursuing one interest soon becomes aware of stigmatized material on a broad range of subjects. As a result, those who come across one form of stigmatized knowledge will learn of others, in connections that imply that stigmatized knowledge is a unified domain, an alternative worldview, rather than a collection of unrelated ideas.

It strikes me that the only real reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Experience alone does not create knowledge

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel lehren Demut, das brauche ich für meine Charakterentwicklung.

Wer die Enge seiner Heimat begreifen will, der reise. Wer die Enge seiner Zeit ermessen will, studiere Geschichte.

Man muss nicht alles so genau verstehen, lesen genügt auch...

Umwege erweitern die Ortskenntnis

Laß dir von keinem Fachmann imponieren, der dir erzählt: "Lieber Freund, das mache ich schon seit zwanzig Jahren so!"—Man kann eine Sache auch zwanzig Jahre lang falsch machen.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Books matter because kids matter and books make our kids better than we are.

We have eaten theology with you, will you now eat theology with us?

I know no such thing.