Quotes About Learning

There were no computers in my high school, and the first two times I attempted college, people were still counting on their fingers and removing their shoes when the numbers got above ten.

It was as if I'd learned to grieve by watching television:

we all make mistakes, but if you don't learn quickly enough, you'll not survive in this sport.

as I really don't think I draw all that well, but it was interesting to see that some of the drawings worked better than others, and why.

But we radically improve our skills when we are forced outside of our comfort zone and asked to solve problems that seem foreign, or use tools or methods that seem alien to us. You

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed

This book will help you become a better programmer.

Todos cometemos errores en esta vida, tú también los cometerás, y lo único importante es levantarse y enderezar lo que dejaste torcido.

They were taught to be technicians, not thinkers, in a culture that is long on know-how and short on know-why.

It is not well to forget the past," Douglass warned in a speech later in the 1880s. "Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is . . . the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical.

knowledge increased, but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance grew as well.

They're human beings, and the two things humans make are tools…and mistakes. But sometimes we get stuff right, too, and there are some really good models out there

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

all ensigns should be pruned back occasionally. It served them in good stead later.

as his mother had always told him, ignorance could be fixed; stupid was forever. "My

perhaps the cardinal element, was the belief that the book was never closed, never ended. God was infinite; Man's understanding was not. And so, there would always be more for Man to learn, more for God to teach him, and as the doctrine of the Test taught, it was best to pay attention to one's lessons, whatever the form in which they might come.

Most people never get there. They're afraid or unwilling to demand enough of themselves and take the easy road, the path of least resistance. But struggling and suffering, as I now saw it, were the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not constantly demanding more from yourself--expanding and learning as you go--your choosing a numb existence. Your denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure.