Quotes About Learning

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

I want to learn and continue to learn. It's the only way to stay alive.

Christian scholarship will be a poor and paltry thing, worth little attention, until the Christian scholar, under the control of his authentic commitment, devises theories that lead to promising, interesting, fruitful, challenging lines of research.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

he made us to be warriors so that we'd fight our fears, learn from our mistakes, and live to fight another day.

Trees teach us patience, but grass teaches us persistence.

Meadowlark Elementary

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)

It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Jack Ma recalls saying to his son in 2015, "You don't need to be in the top three in your class, being in the middle is fine, so long as your grades aren't too bad. Only this kind of person [a middle-of-the-road student] has enough free time to learn other skills.

As Albert Einstein said of himself in his later years, "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Isaac Asimov got close to the truth when he said in 1974, "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Online Tech Ed platforms—such as Coursera (Yale and other universities), edX (Harvard and MIT), and Stanford Online—offer nearly one thousand high-quality courses to the general public, and most are entirely free.

Winston Churchill was likewise a poor student, admitting that "Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

In the 1920s, a tech engineer's "half-life of knowledge" was thirty-five years; in the 1960s, it was a decade; and today it is five years at most.

Musk always had a book in hand. Said his brother, Kimbal, "It was not unusual for him to read ten hours a day. If it was the weekend, he could go through two books in a day.

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.

Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.