Quotes About Learning

the biblical warning of Ecclesiastes: "In much knowledge is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Elementary school children are very impressionable

Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts," John Wooden once said.

Do not expect to master the Bible in a day, or a month, or a year. Rather expect often to be puzzled by its contents. It is not all equally clear. Great men of God often feel like absolute novices when they read the Word. The apostle Peter said that there were some things hard to understand in the epistles of Paul (2

Biblical heroes were regular people who had to learn the same things you and I have to learn–to drive out fear by increasing their knowledge of God, to shift their focus from their present fear to the eternal God, to replace what they didn't know about the future with what they did know about Him.

Failure sucks, but instructs.

It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands of the state.

Orang-orang tahu bahwa terkadang pelajaran terbesar kita terletak pada rasa sakit yang paling menyakitkan.

I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.

It's not rocket surgery!

I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.

I don't want to know anything, and I want to know it all

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

I learn. Sometimes I am taught something I have already been taught in dozens of other classrooms. Sometimes I am taught something completely new. I have to access the body, access the mind and see what information it's retained. And when I do, I learn. Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never lesrned how to hold on?

To do this—to understand the full extent to which people can define themselves beyond their bodies—I have had to learn and learn and learn, and then learn some more. And by learn I mean unlearn…and then learn and unlearn and learn some more.

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid, and I discovered that letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been