Quotes About Learning

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

Nothing can be called failure until you accept it as such. You can transmute all past failures and mistakes into assets. Adversity is Nature's method of disciplining people to learn to take possession of their own minds. Greatest blessings often come from the greatest adversities. Study yourself carefully and you may discover that your own emotions are your greatest handicap in the business of accurate thinking.

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

Regret is a form of punishment itself.

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.

The only thing one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The people with the best advice are usually the ones who have been through the most.

This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.

We are all failures-at least the best of us are.

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.

Trust is like a eraser. It gets smaller and smaller after every mistake."

Perfection is in the mind that makes mistakes

A child knows how to image before he know how to reason. He is born with a naturally vivid and fertile imagination but he has to learn how to use logic and reason.

There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.

Not a quote. Did Ursula study at Hunter College?

Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, "He'll get in trouble and he'll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It's the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves.

Molly dove into the pastries. It had been a very long walk from the village and she'd been living on sandwiches and a thermos of cold tea. "These are delicious!" she said, around a mouthful of pastry. "Is learning to cook from first husband," said Cook. "Then is cooking him. Lousy husband. Second husband is chef, much better.