Quotes About Learning

Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Brilliant students make good aides.

Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance.

Michael Hopkins of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Laboratory at Dartmouth reports,"It looks more and more like the positive stress of exercise prepares cells and structures and pathways within the brain so that they're more equipped to handle stress in other forms." This means the stress you get from pushing yourself to your physical limits can translate to improved resilience when facing psychological and emotional stressors in the rest of your life.

But I'll tell you something else, too. Something I've learned, the hard way. I guess"—Gram laughed a little—"I'm the kind of person who has to learn things the hard way. You've got to hold on. Hold on to people. They can get away from you. It's not always going to be fun, but if you don't—hold on—then you lose them.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.

I've known for a long time it's useless to try to share what you don't understand yourself.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

Destruction and suffering are the school of social thought.

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A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

Theology is like rowing a boat. You can only move forward when you are looking backwards.

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

School never teaches you about this mangled human slime, it slays me. You spend all your time learning the capital of Surinam while these retards carve their initials in your back.

Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination.

Every day,' nodded Julia. 'I've learnt quite a lot. What an easy way of making money, isn't it?' 'But, look here! You mustn't try speculating on your own. It's frightfully risky. The thing to do is to put your pile into something safe.' 'Oh, I know,' she agreed. 'I've learnt enough about business to know that I don't know much.' 'Some people never learn as much as that.

but a road upon which he was moving toward eternal life. He was in no hurry to reach the end of the road; for the road, though sorrowful at times, was intensely interesting (there was so much to see and to learn and so many things to do; he would be sorry when he came to the last mile), but still it was as a road that Mr. Grace looked upon it.

I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

I can't let that happen again. The stakes are way too high. I know that, now more than ever. If there's anything good that came from my failure on First Earth, it's that I have now totally given myself over to being a Traveler.

My life has been defined by a series of failures.

The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries - the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right attitude, we might become better, smarter versions of ourselves.

I did read Indian scriptures when we could get the English versions, but the problem was I never took the time to learn the language. Really, what it comes down to is that I knew the emotion of faith; I knew what my parents were trying to teach me, but we always said 'No' when my mom was trying to teach us Punjabi.