Quotes About Learning

Taking on the Negativity of Exponents

perhaps there is only one distinction that matters: those who are learning to love their neighbors and those who remain indifferent to them

I don't usually look back. When I make foolish decisions, I file the consequences under lessons learned and tell myself not to be stupid in the same way again.

People fail forward to success.

How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the chances to recover and try again? How does one break the news that nothing permanent can be formed in an instant--children are not weaned, potty trained, taught manners, introduced to civilization in one or two tries--as everyone imagined.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.

Most children suffer from a crippling lack of stimulation. The brain is like any other muscle; use it, and it develops. Ignore it, and it atrophies.

I was gradually learning as a teacher why teachers' colleges were wrong to spend so much time on planning. The most important thing to learn was to be able to throw the plan away, whatever it was. What was necessary was to listen, to follow each minute to its peak, learning as you went.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

I wanted to be like my sister, who made friends and mistakes easily. It was like she'd been born knowing how to live.

ignorance is like a cow that a lot of people can't stop milkin!

Misfortunes make us wise

She learned a lot and some of the things she learned were hard to accept. She was made to realize once and for all that this earth on which they lived turning about in space did not revolve, as she had believed, for the sake of little people. "Nor for big people either," she reminded the boy when she saw his secret smile.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

And millions of books," said Annie.

A mature organization focuses on learning effectively and empowers the people who do the work to make decisions.

Fui felice di sfoggiare quel poco che sapevo; e poiché mi sentivo già a mio agio con lui, gli domandai perché mai un vecchio volesse frequentare la scuola. Non si risentì; rispose che per un vecchio non imparare ciò che avrebbe potuto renderlo migliore era assai più disonorevole che per i ragazzi, dato che aveva avuto tutto il tempo di comprenderne l'importanza".

All'inizio andai da Socrate", disse, "per il suo metodo negativo. Mi piaceva vederlo minare alla base la sicurezza degli stolti. Ecco, pensavo, un uomo che non addomestica la verità, ma la segue anche nel deserto. Perciò lo seguii a mia volta; e Socrate mi condusse dove non avevo pensato di andare".

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

How I fevered to study the seven liberal arts: the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island unless it had a library.