Quotes About Learning

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.

Science is not finished until it is communicated.

I was in public school until third or fourth grade, and after that, I was homeschooled. I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

When I entered normal school, it was hard for me to adjust sometimes. I was so unused to just sitting down in a classroom and copying off the board - simple things.

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.

I've learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I've learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I've found more angles to throw shots.