Quotes About Learning

as more attention is given to distinguishing between pinpoint differences in touch, sound, or sight, the area of the brain devoted to that distinction expands and, in the process, gets better at it.

College is the longest vacation you will ever take.

Kittens are born blind and rely on their mother's milk for the first week. They grow quickly and are soon walking and play-fighting with their brothers and sisters as they learn how to be a cat.

Os Erros, como a Palha, flutuam à superfície; Aquele que proura Pérolas deve mergulhar mais fundo.

Life is absurd; we must learn to enjoy the beautiful amber that coats the fossils of death strewn all around us.

Here is what I say to the children who are our future: never underestimate how denial and a good old-fashioned mild learning disability can team up to come off as unwavering self-confidence.

The most important thing to remember, the guiding principle, is to try to keep your son's self-esteem intact while he is in school. That is the real risk to his success and to his mental health. Once he's out of school, the world will be different. He'll find a niche where the fact that he can't spell well, or didn't read until he was eight, won't matter. But if he starts to hate himself because he isn't good at

Most people want to be entertained, not educated.

One day, Aaron Levie, the twenty-six-year-old CEO of Box, a well-funded new tech company, tells me it's really important to learn from what happened in the 1990s—which is why he has read a bunch of books about that era.

Silence opens up new pathways to learning.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Speaking of driving time—join the Automobile University. If you drive twenty-five thousand miles a year at an average speed of 46 mph, you will spend about the same amount of time in your car as an average college student spends in the classroom. The question then is, what are you doing with that time? You can listen to any one of thousands of programs and transform your success.)

Stephen Covey said we all want "to live, to love, to learn and to leave a legacy.

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life." —Author Unknown

We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. . . . Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves."7

If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." —Jim Rohn

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." —Mark Twain

Continual learning is the key to continual living. If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Perhaps the unwelcome event you've encountered is just an opportunity to help you know how to stand up stronger.

Hill once said: "Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities."4

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." —Henry S. Haskins3

If you're not prepared to be wrong you'll never come up with something original." —Sir Ken Robinson4