Quotes About Learning

Clementine learned to feel bad about her white middle-class privilege long before it became fashionable.

No kid was going to go to school in a place that looked like freaking Buckingham Palace and come out of it resilient.

Hindsight, it's always just a fraction too late.

The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

We should Google it. Don't sneer at me.

I reflected, by experiencing disaster my generation did learn one terribly important thing -- the danger that lies in blind obedience.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.

Whenever he was required to use his reason he felt like someone who had always used his right hand but was now required to do something with his left.

The lowest classes, although they do not think it worth while to write down what they perceive, do nevertheless perceive and feel all that would have been worth the noting. The difference between the masses and the man of learning often consists in no more than a kind of apperception, or in the art of putting things into expression.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

It turns out that saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," doesn't apply to humans. Research now reveals that our brains are continuously changing, producing new growth, making new connections. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are still under construction, learning as we go along.

Our failures or mistakes give us important feedback on what we need to change or concentrate on in the future.

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

With twenty-twenty hindsight I could solve every fucking problem, couldn't I?

What would he do? He wouldn't be sitting here moping. He'd be figuring out some way of getting out of here. Christ, I'm woefully short on practical experience. The researcher's doom, actual field conditions.

Goddamn. Well, let's call that an experiment and chalk it up to experience. All hail Jill Kismet the scientist.

Hidup bahagia ialah yang dipakai untuk belajar, mencari nafkah dan mencintai sesama.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.