Quotes About Learning

The priests who attended this secret meeting did so in the tradition of their enslaved black ancestors who often stole off in secrecy to learn to read and write. Like their ancestors, they were "stealing a meeting." The meeting lasted well into the night.

Uhn, there are so many bad ideas in the world," Vasiht'h muttered, rubbing his face. "Then let us go forth and make those mistakes," Jahir said. "And learn something from them.

May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten.

it has to do with whether you think intelligence is fixed (you're born as smart as you'll ever be) or changeable (you can get smarter throughout life). When provided with evidence that the brain can grow new pathways, fixed-orientation freshman college students on the verge of dropping out switched to a growth orientation and graduated.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

I hope,' muttered Jasper, 'we do not ever shop again at a place where vampires can buy clip-on bow ties. You would think with all of eternity in front of them, they could take the time to learn a simple knot.

That's one of the great things about the feed—that you can be supersmart without ever working. Everyone is supersmart now. You can look things up automatic, like science and history, like if you want to know which battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and shit.

I am messaging you to say that I love you, and that you're completely wrong about me thinking you're stupid. I always thought you could teach me things. I was always waiting. You're not like the others. You say things that no one expects you to. You think you're stupid. You want to be stupid. But you're someone people could learn from.

Ketika kami tidak mengerjakan ujian dengan baik, guru akan mencerca kami, dan mengeluh bahwa ia mengajar kelas berisi siswa-siswa idiot yang tidak berguna. Guru, seharusnya Anda tidak meremehkan kami, karena kegagalan kami adalah awal keberhasilan

Na een paar maanden constateert hij [Goethe] dat het hem zwaar valt rekenschap af te leggen van zijn verblijf, want - zo noteert hij op 25 januari 1787 - 'zoals men merkt dat de zee steeds dieper wordt naarmate men haar verder opvaart, zo vergaat het ook mij bij het beschouwen van deze stad'. Zich Rome werkelijk toe-eigenen vergt een mensenleven - zo verzucht de auteur enkele maanden later - 'of zelfs het leven van vele mensen, die stap voor stap van elkaar leren.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

How short lived knowledge is. When I was 20 I knew it all: now at 70 I can't understand a thing

Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

Those academics books that makes you feel like you ain't good enough, they were written by a human being like you. You not stupid for failing, you just not understanding someone else's point of view and it is normal not to understand someone's point of view

Nor must you find fault with me if I often give you what I have borrowed from my various reading, in the very words of the authors themselves.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small portion of it, endeavouring to taste and digest it, to extract the essence and substance thereof, and proceed no farther while any savour or relish remains in the passage: when this subsides, pick up your book again and proceed as before, seldom reading more than half a page at a time, for it is not the quantity that is read, but the manner of reading, that yields us profit.

Then I remembered that I had yet to learn, if I ever was to learn, how strongly people in love could feel. In any event, I was the last person in the world to judge anyone as foolishly impulsive, for this was my own greatest fault.

At many levels, contempt has become a defining characteristic of American politics. It makes us unwilling to listen to what others say—unwilling, in some cases, even to allow them to speak. This stops the learning process cold and creates a ready-made audience for demagogues who know how to bring diverse groups of the aggrieved together in righteous opposition to everyone else.

Robert Frost: "Now when I am old my teachers are the young.

believe we can recognize truth when we see it, just not at first and not without ever relenting in our efforts to learn more.

person who is learning has less time to think about growing old. I also enjoy surprising people

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.