Quotes About Learning

Education has its problems. This includes making the wise wiser and the foolish more foolish.

La educación tiene sus problemas. Estos incluyen hacer más sabio al sabio y más tonto al tonto.

The imitator is like a canal. It does not itself drink, but may transit water to the thirsty.

Truth is what you can learn, not what you think you must learn. It is what is there, not what you want to be there.

La verdad es lo que puedes aprender, no lo que crees que debes aprender. Es lo que está allí, no lo que quieres que esté allí.

Los Sufis pueden enseñar por medio de cualquier vehículo, como quiera que se llame.

Si quieres alimentar tu estupidez, intenta con un poquito de avaricia.

La aspereza de un maestro es mejor que la supuesta ternura de un padre.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

He learned by experience that one train of thought left him sad, the other joyful. This was his first reasoning on spiritual matters.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

TEACHER: Kevin, how do you spell crocodile? KEVIN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L. TEACHER: No, I'm sorry, that's wrong. KEVIN: It can't be. You asked me how I spell it!

Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye of Tao.

Confucius said, "at 15 I set my heart on learning; at 30 I firmly took my stand; at 40 I had no delusions; at 50 I knew the mandate of heavan; at 60 my ear was attuned; at 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of what was right.

The paradox of Hank Williams was that he was easygoing on the outside, yet tense and querulous inside. He pretended that he'd just ridden into town on a mule, yet had a lively intelligence combined with what Minnie Pearl described as a "woods-animal distrust" of anyone who appeared to have any more learning than he did.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

No such thing as a stupid question

There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.

There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Fear and failure are always present. Accept them as part of life and learn how to manage these realities. Be scared, but keep going. Being scared is usually transient. It will pass. If you fail, fix the causes and keep going.