Quotes About Learning

Cheers to the that, I love college

Getting good grades and learning things is the key to any door you want to open in the future. If you don't try your best, you are hurting yourself the most.

Lissy always thought she knew everything.

Sometime perhaps you will learn that prejudice often blinds people to some of the rarest things in life. I often wonder if we don't miss out that way in trying to learn about God and things of the other world.

Learning is not a product of teaching. Kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking, a great human gift disowned.

My dear, no one knows the power of good sense. It hasn't been built up or experimented with sufficiently.

You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know.

I regret to report I let my barely legal self down.

Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.

Os livros idiotas animam a gente. Se não fossem eles, nem sei quem se atreveria a começar.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

Perhaps we will not only improve our understanding and analysis but we might also learn better ways to be human, better ways to live in the world. If we do not hope for something like that it seems to me that we ought not to be taking up so much of other people's time with our questions and our stories (G. Harvey 2011b).

There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Ahzek Ahriman

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

What is a history teacher? He's someone who teaches mistakes.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys' schooling interfere with their education!

Never let schooling interfere with education.

It is a state of mind, a learning of the oneness of things, an appreciation for fundamental insights known in Eastern philosophy and religion as simply the Way [or Tao]. For Boyd, the Way is not an end but a process, a journey…The connections, the insights that flow from examining the world in different ways, from different perspectives, from routinely examining the opposite proposition, were what were important. The key is mental agility

People who escape familiar groups and make contact with unfamiliar ones becomes smarter and more creative. They have what Ronald Burt calls a "vision advantage." They are no longer captives of their cultures.

what if we spent as much time and money on Bible study as we do our hobbies?

If in Los Angeles in 1949 he had preached "fast and loud," by the time he got to New York in 1957 he had learned to dial down the speed and let the microphone do the heavy lifting.