Quotes About Learning

Kim Peek, for example, who was the basis for Rain Man, was severely mentally handicapped and could not get dressed by himself. Yet he had memorized twelve thousand books and could give a lightning-quick answer to almost any factual question.

He read political science, mass media communications, finance, and international conflict resolution,

a handheld hose. I couldn't find in my dictionnaire the word for the specific kind of hose my European partner was used to, but Claude knew the right term because, as he told me, he had several Italian clients: a douchette anale.

I have undertaken this project precisely because I am unqualified to do so.

paraphrase Confucius, real knowledge is finding out the depths of one's own ignorance.

He who is always anxious to teach will learn nothing.

I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we're smart. And that there's stuff that TV and movies—although they're great at certain things—cannot give us.

a good book teaches the reader how to read it.

Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

Useful learning needs to begin where the student is at that time and then builds on what that person knows. The biggest challenge to an educator is what to forgo from the 'old' curriculum in favour of something more relevant. Then

To not risk is to not learn. Or to state this more positively; risk taking can make one open to learning and can ensure that this learning is retained.

Athlete or not, I'm going to make sure you know how to read.

Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.

Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power and sex.

He not only wanted to talk; he half-believed that, if he talked to his dog as a person, in time London would come to understand. It's the way a child learns the language. All sorts of things are said to a baby; and all at once he knows what is being told him.

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic.