Quotes About Learning

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

Failure is how we learn—it's how we develop and acquire grit.

Helping children master their emotions and relationships makes them better learners.

It is well to learn disappointment when one is young, for the gods bestow it abundantly if one cheats death for long.

The definition of a spiritual person is someone who makes 30–50 mistakes each day and talks to the Creator after each one to see what to do next time.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

I have always believed that one learns more from failure than from success.

Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.

We are afraid of the things we do not know—just because we do not know them.

That's one of Patrick's favorite theories. He read somewhere that people remember stuff better if they read or think about it right before they fall asleep.

T)he path to wisdom lies not in certainty, but in trying to understand.

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.

When a peculiar fact or well-stated bit of information triggers a poem, most of what I'll need is there where I stumbled on it. If questions arise later (moons of Jupiter, a three-syllable squid), Google is awfully handy of course.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

A learner is never without a teacher as long as they have the book to learn from.

Math problems are good problems to have.

Natural intelligence will always be one step ahead of artificial intelligence on a random walk.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.