Quotes About Learning

Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me.  I was a hospital in myself.  All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma. Then

And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.

When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

Whenever your child loses a game, has a setback, or makes a mistake, wait a day and then ask this thought-provoking question: "Why are you a better athlete now than you were before that loss or mistake?

A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

No, no. It's not your fault. 'Books, books, I need my books.' Have you re-read those books yet, by the way? - Jerry, Seinfeld

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.

Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a void with great speed

Friends, family, school, they were just obstacles in the way of getting more books.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

What's the matter? said the old man. Can't you make up your mind what kind you want? The kid laughed. I want them all. He threw his hands out. I'm learning everything! He opened one of the books. Look...geometry...triangles...

Like so many of Archie's words, they seemed not to enter through my ears but to settle on my skin, there to burrow like tiny eggs awaiting the rain of my maturity, when they would hatch and I at last would understand.

You're a kid trying to figure out the world you were born into, that's all.

She taught me to revel.

No backsies. That was a terrible truth to learn before the age of fifteen, that some mistakes are forever.

Better to feel the pain now, my dad had told me that day I'd fallen off my bike, than suffer the infection later.

He had never really mastered English, but he'd studied enough to have a healthy fear of its random severity, the senseless brutatlity of its conjugations; it was unpredictable, like a cross-bred dog.

He had never really mastered English, but he'd studied enough to have a healthy fear of its random severity, the senseless brutality of its conjugations; it was unpredictable, like a cross-bred dog.

But anyone who has been in love knows that love is just the beginning. You learn more every day, every year, every decade, and not just about the object of your affection, but about yourself, and about the nature of love itself, and eventually, about the nature of loss.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning, but for children play is serious learning." Mr. Rogers

We need to make sure that we are allowing students to be exposed to future technology and not reducing it to current—what a lot of people would like to say, relevant teaching.

I never said that I knew everything. I'm just confident that I'm well-informed on many subjects.

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?