Quotes About Learning

I am no advocate of senseless and excessive cramming in studies, but a boy should work, and should work hard, at his lessons -- in the first place, for the sake of what he will learn, and in the next place, for the sake of the effect upon his own character of resolutely settling down to learn it. Shiftlessness, slackness, indifference in studying, are almost certain to mean inability to get on in other walks of life.

training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

I am old-fashioned, or sentimental, or something, about books! Whenever I read one I want, in the first place, to enjoy myself, and, in the next place, to feel that I am a little better and not a little worse for having read it. It

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

i am part of everything that i have read

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

I am a part of everything I have read

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

Why do you talk all the time?" I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully. "I think it's 'cause I don't know any big words, like you and Mummy," she said, just in time to pull me out of my magazine again, "so I have to use lots and lots of little ones.

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

The scribe was a strict teacher and he did not accept anything less than perfect... Like a mother sensing the baby quickening within her, suddenly, to me, the letters were no longer hostile and unwieldly. I had command of them, with my head and with my hand... The words struck, as clear and as pure as a bell peal on a winter morning.

They were all getting too old too fast. Alison wished that someone had warned her about this while she was in high school. People get old really fast. Take it easy and learn to forgive. She wondered if she would have known what that meant in high school.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are repeating the mistakes of the 1760's, 1850's, and 1920's. The author is a brilliant writer and is so good at explaining even the most complex subjects in a compelling & easy to understand way. The next crash will be painful but it's important to understand what is being done to us, and how we can learn from history and take action.

He placed us in churches to serve, to care for others, to pray for leaders, to learn, to teach, to give, and, in some cases, to die for the sake of the gospel. Many churches are weak because we have members who have turned the meaning of membership upside down. It's time to get it right. It's time to become a church member as God intended. It's time to give instead of being entitled.

Max Depree declaro sabiamente: ,El liderazgo es como tercer grado: hay que repetir las cosas importantes»

Beginners cringe at the thought of perspective, but you have to admit it's very cool once you see that car sitting on your paper like it was a real three-dimensional object! You don't want to be drawing side views all your life,

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.