Quotes About Learning

Don't teach your granddad how to fish.

but sometimes it's necessary to face your fears to learn from them.

Many children... delight in the small and inconspicuous.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate." — Rachel Carson, A sense of wonder

facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

Baldwin told the story again and again of standing on Broadway and being told by Delaney to look down. Delaney asked him what he saw, and Baldwin said a puddle. Delaney said, 'Look again,' and then Baldwin saw the reflections of the buildings, distorted and radiant in the oil on the puddle. He taught me to see, Baldwin said, and that 'what one cannot or will not see, says something about you.

From the time I was a baby, my mom took me to the library at least once a week. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.

I already know the words. I just need to learn the beat. This tone-deaf white girl will try to make music out of recovery.

Do not consider then, however learned you are, that your knowledge is complete. For learning is the river of G-d and we drink of it throughout our lives.

Glimpsing the void in your souls, you will by nature wish for that which will fill it at once. It is from this wish that you must be on your guard, and discern the light of true learning from the false.

What had drawn a non-Jewish woman of her generation to this obscure life as a specialist in Jewish studies?

To study with an able mind is to escape prison, for a time.

But I will tell you what I learned after I lost my sight... I walked through rooms that had once been familiar, my arms outstretched, and was fouled and thwarted by every obstacle in my path. What I learned then, Ester, is a thing that I have been learning ever since... The distance between things are vast, he said. They are vast.

I believe the only lesson Thomas took from Oxford was that he detested schooling.

Read the newspaper, Aaron's father liked to say, you'll grow to be an educated man.

Ignorance is now your great enemy, and I do none any favor by flattering you that you are not ignorant.

The contemporary belief that the family meal is a place where children learn to become members of a moral society owes much to the Dutch.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

Raising kids isn't carpentry, he said Forget measuring twice and cutting once, You measure over and over everyday

I want you to be wise for your own sake, Stephen, because at the best life requires great wisdom. I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because – ' He hesitated, 'because you mayn't find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends.