Quotes About Learning

By refusing to respect you and your needs, the other is bringing about a certain set of natural consequences, which themselves can become the other's teacher. Your job is to simply facilitate the learning process, beginning by asking reality-testing questions, and proceeding to warnings.

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

A man's children should have an education. They should get out and see the world and meet people.

You know, an old man like me can teach a young boy like you all the good things in life. But it takes a young boy like you to teach an old man like me to appreciate all the good things in life. I guess that's what life's all about.

I'd been living around Mama for fourteen years; and a boy can learn a lot about his mama in that length of time.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn." (Winston Churchill)

Love to learn—hate to be taught.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them...let them be your friends.

Well then, try to keep an open mind be ready to learn about other things. Such as this, I suppose Such as trying not to have set ideas - other people's ideas - about love

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.

We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one.