Quotes About Learning

Questions show an inquisitive mind.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

you have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way

Böcker ska blänka som solar och gnistra som tomtebloss. Medan vi läser böckerna läser böckerna oss. Kan böckerna läsa människor? Det kan de förstås! Hur skulle de annars veta allting om oss?

Children, Don't do what I have done I couldn't walk so I tried to run

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Pestalozzi.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..

The person who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

We must learn all that we can about God, so that we may love him, and keep our love alive, and grow in love for him.