Quotes About Learning

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

For a large part of what I know about people and things I have to thank an art of listening which wise teachers taught me early.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Exasperatingly, we're all pretty much restricted to learning what people are like with the permanent confound of our own presence, which is why those chance glimpses of someone you love just walking down the street can seem so precious.

Exasperatingly, we're all pretty much restricted to learning what people are like with the permanent confound of our own presence, which is why those chance glimpses of someone you love just walking down the street can seem so precious.

Infants have great intuition, because intuition's about all they've got.

Precocious was not the same as smart, much less the same as wise, and the perfect opposite of informed - since the more you prided yourself on knowing already the less you listened and the less you learned.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously put you off the activity altogether.

Just because you learn something in adulthood doesn't mean it's fake.

Even if he doesn't go to college, he could at least learn to make something. Nobody in this country knows how to sink a nail anymore. They're all dependent on the tradesmen their kids are taught not to become.

Por qué haces todo lo posible para que tus hijas se sientan unas tontas? —¡No es eso! Sólo intento que se sientan incultas, que no es lo mismo.

But one of the things you lose in the wisdom of age is the wisdom of youth. Education is not a steady process of accrual, but a touch-and-go contest between learning and forgetting, like frantically trying to fill a sink faster than it can empty through an open drain...

Education is not a steady process of accrual, but a touch-and-go contest between learning and forgetting, like frantically trying to fill a sink faster than it can empty through an open drain—which

Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.

I've learned that patience is something you don't "have"; you must create it yourself. It isn't a commodity doled out to all infants in varying amounts at birth. You learn (and earn) patience by making time for it, calming yourself down, relaxing, and letting it happen. The more you practice patience, the more you have. And the more you have, the easier it is to summon when you need it most.

Because some information is better than no information. Life does not give you big, simple answers, Caitlyn. It demands patience, focus, and an open, intelligent mind to gather the pieces of a puzzle and fit them together into a coherent whole. Nothing worth knowing is ever easily learned.

Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.

Keep listening. With open ears, you will be one of the few who learn.

Looking back on their own teenage years, most adults feel grateful that there's no easy-to-access document of all the dumb things they did.

Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.

Find something you'd want to keep doing forever," she said, "even if you stink at it. And then if you're lucky, with lots of practice, then one day you won't stink so much.