Quotes About Learning

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.

The child tortures the fly because he has the power to do so, and had not yet learned how mercifully to kill.

Ignorance breeds superstition.

Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.

Now I hoard knowledge out of fear. I figure the more I know, the more I'll be able to control a situation and keep from getting hurt again.

Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?

Teachings not validated by personal experience are of little value.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

A person who asks questions can get a reputation such as a person who wishes to find things out.

Regard the books,' Sindermann said. 'Are there some I should read? Will you prepare a list for me?' 'Read them all. Read them again. Swallow the learning and ideas of our predecessors whole, for it can only improve you as a man, but if you do, you'll find that none of them holds an answer to still your doubts.

Mankind has proven to be pathologically incapable of learning from its own mistakes. It blithely remembers the witness of history, but it does not apply the knowledge it gains.

He thinks about trying again, and second chances. Sometimes there just isn't the opportunity or the willingness to make things better. Sometimes you can't simply have another go. You make a choice, and it's a bad one, and you're left with it. No amount of trying again will fix it. Don't expect anyone to feel sorry for you, to cut you slack; you made a mistake you'll have to live with.

You are walking along the shores of a lake,' Sindermann said. 'A boy is drowning. Do you let him drown because he was foolish enough to fall into the water before he had learned to swim? Or do you fish him out, and teach him how to swim?' Loken shrugged. 'The latter.' 'What if he fights you off as you attempt to save him, because he is afraid of you? Because he doesn't want to learn how to swim?' 'I save him anyway.

Regard the books,' Sinderman said, 'Are there some I should read? Will you prepare a list for me?' (asked Loken) 'Read them all. Read them again. Swallow the learning and ideas of our predecessors whole, for it can only improve you as a man...

We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we're not going to do better.

To teach a student riddle a student with his own life To teach a student ask a student the question he asked you in words more learned than his words until he relents and he says a student There is no answer I don't know

I write because I read. I imagine many of us are this way, bewildered in the tangle of these activities: writing to understand how better to read, reading to understand how better to write."-Dan Beachy-Quick

For holy conversation to occur, we must at least be in touch with the reality that we could be wrong. Holy conversation needs an appropriate modesty that is the opposite of arrogance.

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

Pain is a part of growing up. It's how we learn.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

The goal is always the same: to break a skill into its component pieces (circuits), memorize those pieces individually, then link them together in progressively larger groupings (new, interconnected circuits).