Quotes About Learning

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

A good book is an education of the heart.

You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.