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Quotes About Learning

You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
~ Norton Juster
Ali to je samo velika olovka, usprotivio se Uholaž i u nju kucnuo štapom za šetnju. To je istina, suglasio se Matemagi?ar, ali kad se jednom nau?iš njome služiti, onda nema kraja onom što možeš u?initi.
~ Norton Juster
You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
~ Norton Juster
I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words: - Milo
~ Norton Juster
Kad god se nasmiješiš, radost se oko tebe širi poput kolobara u bari, i kad god si tužan, nitko nigdje ne može biti stvarno sretan. A isto ti je tako i sa znanjem, jer kad god nau?iš nešto novo, ?itav svijet postaje mnogo bogatiji.
~ Norton Juster
the front seat with his alarm again ringing furiously. "Are you all right?" shouted Milo. "Umphh," grunted Tock. "Sorry to get carried away, but I think you get the point." As they drove along, Tock continued to explain the importance of time, quoting the old philosophers and poets and illustrating each point with gestures that brought him perilously close to tumbling headlong from the speeding automobile.
~ Norton Juster
I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
~ Norton Juster
I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
~ Norton Juster
In this box are all the words I know,' he said. 'Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made from these words. With them, there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.
~ Norton Juster
You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. - The Mathemagician
~ Norton Juster
Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof.
~ Norton Juster
And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.
~ Norton Juster
It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
~ Norton Juster
it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
~ Norton Juster
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
~ Nyogen Senzaki
1. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. It is overfull. No more will go in! Like this cup, Nan-in said, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your up?
~ Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps
Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.
~ O. Henry
No pretendía ser un sabio, pero había bebido hasta emborracharse en el manantial de la sabiduría.
~ O. Henry
Tal vez amar es aprender a caminar por este mundo
~ Octavio Paz
Perhaps to love is to learn to walk through this world. To learn to be silent Like the oak and linden of fable. To learn to see
~ Octavio Paz
Su curiosidad no es la del hombre de ciencia, sino la del hombre culto que aspira a integrar en una visión coherente todas las particularidades del conocimiento. Presentía oculto engarce entre todas las verdades.
~ Octavio Paz
The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.
~ Og Mandino
Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.
~ Og Mandino
I will read each scroll for thirty days in this prescribed manner, before I proceed to the next scroll.
~ Og Mandino