Quotes About Learning

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know. Maybe there is wisdom in that recognition. Unfortunately, I have found no comfort in it.

The past was a trove of hard-won wisdom.

It's the incessant need to know more and more and yet still more, to know everything, that is the fast track to destruction. Knowledge is a good thing, Jeffrey, but the arrogance that so often comes with knowledge is ultimately our undoing. Don't be undone, Jeffrey. Do not be undone by pride in your knowledge.

By the time he receives a high school degree

was learned from experience, what was intuitively known, and matters of instinct coded in the genes.

Frequently, our mistakes turn out to suggest meaning beyond the fact that we have made an error.

should know. Though

stamps, paintings—not least of all because he was eighty-nine and had spent his life learning.

Like her grandfather, she is a knowledge sponge.

He knew what he didn't know. Dorian Purcell, on the other hand, seemed not to know what he didn't know.

you have a great deal of time to fill. The most pleasant way to fill it is by studying and learning things. One of the things Woody had greatly enjoyed learning was classical mythology.

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn. My

Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness, and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

Although Woody had studied and learned a great deal, he was well aware that there were vast

areas of knowledge about which he was ignorant and probably always would be. There was only so much time.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge, why would the effort matter, what would be the point.

But the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed. That is why, years after they have lost everything, optimists are frequently richer and happier than ever, while pessimists often had nothing to lose in the first place.

He'd been reading at a college level since he was seven years old, which maybe didn't mean a whole lot, considering that many college graduates didn't seem to know anything.

have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Stormy believed that we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure. To be with her again, I will have the perseverance of a bulldog, but it seems to me that the training is unnecessarily hard.

the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed. That is why, years after they have lost everything, optimists are frequently richer and happier than ever, while pessimists often had nothing to lose in the first place.

Ultimately, failure can be the father of success if one learns from the errors made.

We all make mistakes. The key is learning from those mistakes and not repeating them.

The challenge is to learn from those mistakes so we don't repeat them.