Quotes About Learning

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

We must have our goals, our dreams, and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished. What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?

Buku yang bisa ku baca berulang-ulang, dengan sudut pandang baru dan pengertian baru setiap kalinya.

La repetición es un factor esencial, no sólo para adiestrar a los animales, sino también a los humanos.

There are two ways that you can learn about the world. You can travel or you can read.

La vie est un apprentissage permanent ; plus on croit savoir, moins on sait, tant les choses changent et avec elles les mentalités.

Una persona sabia es aquella que sabe cómo hacer simples los asuntos más complicados.

15:4:4 The main purpose of learning and involvement in Torah study is to make yourself into a throne for the Divine Presence. When you are dirty with all kinds of sins and transgressions then the Shechinah can't come to rest on you because each and every sin is like a thorn that hurts Her. To remove this obstacle, confess your sins before you begin to learn Torah. (Kav ha-Yashar, chap. 53)

Use every trial that comes to you as an opportunity to improve yourself.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

As students, we have all known two types of teachers, the pedantic and the inspiring. The former have a definite method and operate according to well-established habits; the latter need neither, because they know the subject through and through, Indeed, we may say that teaching methods, which generate subjective habits, are but poor substitutes for the kind of objective intimacy with the subject matter to be taught, which we call 'habitus

Looking back now, I see that we made all the classic mistakes of a growing company.

Some people might be born with a predisposition to better judgment, but the rest of us, I believe, have to grow wiser by hard work.

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

Like most children, theirs was a relation based on verbs, not nouns.

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

Experience rolls over everybody. We try to adapt, to learn, to accommodate, sometimes resisting, other times submitting to, whatever confronts us. Writers go further: they take this largely shapeless bewilderment and pout it into a mold of their own devising. Writing is all resistance.

It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.