Quotes About Learning

give people a tool, and they'll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they'll code for a lifetime. This

You need to think of your quest for wisdom as a hunger that will never be satiated. The mere thought that you've arrived will spawn pride and arrogance.

I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky." (p.275)

After she went to school, they taught her the correct way to draw, and all the life went out of her art.

The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.

Traveling is the best education. You see the world through another lens. You realize your homeland isn't the only reality, there's many.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

In plain English, the immense investment of tax dollars in a vast government-run educational infrastructure is buying young people a poor education.

The failure of American education is an unforgivable dereliction of one generation to the next.

In writing, you learn about the mystery of yourself. In reading you learn about the mystery of the world. Do both and you'll learn much.

The book you don't read is a journey forsaken.

When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die.

If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.

Reading is an apprenticeship to writing

The first step in writing is reading.

In my view, the written word ignites the brain in ways that cannot be achieved by any other medium.

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

Each time I begin writing a new book I feel as though I'm learning to write all over again.

As a writer, you have to re-earn your chops with every new book

I read for pleasure, to expand my world, to learn more, to live outside myself, yet enrich my inner life.

Reading: the best way I know to inhabit other lives, travel to distant places, have great adventures, gain knowledge and experience the world.

No matter how much you write and do other things, make time to read.

Reading is the never-ending apprenticeship for writing ~ Mark Rubinstein

Writing is the gateway to learning about one's self. Reading is the gateway to learning about the world.