Quotes About Learning

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

How long must a fish study to understand human motivation?

He watched the results, using them to design new experiments. He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

Johanna was looking at her expectantly, and suddenly Ravna realized that the girl thought librarians must be experts at everything.

In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping-stone to something better…" ~Harland "The Colonel" Sanders

Men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

life lingers through hurdles,but it actually trains you to the best.

Not satisfied to just learn the ropes, he analyzed the game

Truly maximizing their potential, some students do two years of college in high school through the Running Start program.

Oh, but how I do miss our lovely city," he sighed. "In Alexandria, there was beauty and learning and tolerance. Here, I see ugly buildings and people who want only to watch the bloody gladiatorial games." He threw up his hands in disgust. "Where are the libraries? Where are the scholars, the poets? This is a place of brutes and beasts, not brains.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

Remember when you first learned how to swim? In the beginning you struggled mightily to keep your head above water. But then, one day, something amazing happened: You gave up fighting to stay afloat. And when you did, you rose to the surface and floated effortlessly.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

A library implies an act of faith.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub off.

School is like theater. Teachers are like directors, students are like actors, and classes are like theatrical presentations.

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.