Quotes About Learning

The Internet has kind of allowed me to go to a virtual library whenever I want to find out something about something and not use one source but find multiple ways to research certain topics or subjects.

I expect there will be more virtual schools.

I'm starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

I've virtually grown up in the television industry.

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

Learning isn't meant to be confined to a box, and students virtually never 'master' a topic simply by taking a class.

We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it's virtually impossible to use words to explain music.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.

What I did by virtue of skipping a lot of classes was get two undergraduate degrees and a master's in four years. It wasn't slacking. There were much more productive ways of learning everything than sitting in lectures.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

When you experience playing in two different leagues, you learn to adapt; you pick up elements from the best virtues of each culture.

I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that I'm yet to acquire so much as a single virus still seems a very good thing.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.