Quotes About Learning

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

By the time they're in college, it's gone too far. They've had twelve years without disciplined learning and they don't know how to apply themselves. They haven't learned to study or to pace their work so that projects get completed on time. They fall asleep in lectures because they expect to be entertained not educated.

And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

Today's problems are yesterday's mistakes coming back to bite you in the ass.

Mentoring at its very core is a learning relationship, and the phases I discuss and explore in this book are structures and processes that contribute to learning.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

We love instinctively, but we love well because we've learned how.

Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others.