Quotes About Learning

Knowledge management is a great oxymoron.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.

even if it's boring and dull and soon to be forgotten, continue to learn double-entry bookkeeping. People think I'm joking, but I'm not. You should love the mathematics of business.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Intellect is not wisdom.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

After half a day in a place—especially a foreign country—you've learned more than from all the books and articles you've read.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

Si tiene un niño que está haciendo algo que no le gusta a Ud., y Ud. se molesta con frecuencia, claro, el niño lo repitirá.

Your kids are little. Both their bodies and their brains are still growing. No

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Many Christians are like sieves. Put a sieve into the water, and it is full; but take it out of the water, and it all runs out. So, while they are hearing the sermon, they remember something of value. But, like the sieve, as soon as they have left the church, all is forgotten.

Seguramente la ignorancia en estos días es grande. Una cosa es no saber, otra cosa es no estar dispuesto a saber: "los hombres amaron más las tinieblas que la luz" (Juan 3:19).

Los cristianos escuchan mucho, pero me temo que aprenden poco.

Thomas Watson

Get books into your houses, when you have not the spring near you, then get water into your cisterns; so when you have not that wholesome preaching that you desire, good books are cisterns that hold the water of life in them to refresh you. … So when you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.