Quotes About Learning

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Silly language was very much a part of our lives so stringing together nice sentences and being conscious of interesting words were the sorts of things I enjoyed as a child.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question was ridiculous. "I've eaten figs lots of times.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

Since emotional intelligence is learned rather than inherited, it can be improved.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

knowledge is as powerful, in its own way, as any magic, and that magic without knowledge is worse than useless; it is dangerous.

The instruction of inexperienced young men is one of life's unrivaled pleasures.

The books he had read, the people he had met, and the ideas in which he had steeped himself for three years had transformed him.

What kind of grad student do you take? "I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.

She met adversity with information.

but the importation of knowledge did not mean the exportation of wisdom.

Lynn Thorndike

Lynn Thorndike

Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary.

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

I learned that 'confession' doesn't ease the soul, but challenges it

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

Reading teaches us receptivity....It teaches us to receive, in stillness and attentiveness, a voice possessed temporarily, on loan....And as we grow accustomed to receiving books in stillness and attentiveness, so we can grow to receive the world, also possessed temporarily.

We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and their); there's sounds like theirs; and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.

asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love and God gave me people to help. I asked for favours and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.