Quotes About Learning

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.