Quotes About Learning

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." —Henry Ford5

If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

Where to begin? I don't even know how to ask. Too many tongues are mixed in my mouth. But at the crossing of these winds, very diligent, I immerse myself in the laws of heavenly grammar: I am learning the declensions and ascensions of silence. ... If it has been ordained that I pull out of here, I'll try to descend rung by rung, I hold onto each one, carefully – but there is no end to the ladder, and already no time. All I can still do is fall into the world

It's a very good historical book about history.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

a democracy requires open access to ideas. It requires a willingness to struggle and learn, to question our own suppositions and biases, to open ourselves as citizens, and a nation, to a world of books and thought. If we become a country of superficiality and easy answers based on assumptions and not one steeped in reason and critical learning, we will have lost the foundation of our founding and all that has allowed our nation to grow into our modern United States.

Education is not about just planting a seed; it is also about nurturing, over many decades, a productive, meaningful, and happy life.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy . . . in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, [and] Musick.

You have to live to really know things, my love

Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

What's German for "Holy shit, a big dog in a T-shirt and panties just stole my bag!"? If I kept this up, I might have to learn.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

I read for pleasure,' wrote Margaret Atwood, 'and that is the moment at which I learn most. Subliminal learning.

I read for pleasure," wrote Margaret Atwood, "and that is the moment at which I learn most. Subliminal learning.

But being a substitute parent? Him? It was a tall order for a guy who couldn't even keep a houseplant alive.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

If you don't learn your lessons, you become one for everyone else

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Libraries are what keep us a step ahead of the apes.

ability to answer their own questions… Gradually, they acquire a skill shared by the greatest scholars in the world: the ability to educate themselves…

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.