Quotes About Learning

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

Read, read read. Read everything.