Quotes About Learning

I, on the other hand, hoped Ava would never grow up. In my eyes, the fact that she didn't yet know what words meant, and had no concept of herself as something distinct from anything else, made her the greatest show on earth.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that's only if you're very lucky. And you listen very hard.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: "If you want to learn something," he says, "read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!" (Bhajan).

The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.

I look at the trees and the birds and I know it's not true. I'm not yet sure how to do it, but I'm going to learn.

I consider myself a student of success. I'm no better or smarter than anyone else. I'm just another starving man showing others where the food is.

the two steps back (the falling) are as important as the three steps forward.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board

Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Travel is lethal to prejudice.