Quotes About Learning

The biggest enemy of your learning is the gnawing worry that you're not "doing it right." Dissertation work tends to encourage that.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

Travel, she had discovered, was a delightful means of gratifying the intelligent curiosity that Dr. Johnson had called the root of all wisdom and culture. "I go to bed exhaustedly happy," she wrote in her notebook, "and wake up expectantly smiling.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Those who would be wise and knowing must make application to Christ.

Learning will not alter men's natural tempers, nor cure them of their sinful distempers; nor will it change the constitution of things in this world; a vale of tears it is and so it will be when all is done.

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.

Wherever you find excellence, you find continuous learning. They go hand in hand. Wherever you find that continuous learning is missing, you find mediocrity.

I continue to believe that we can learn more in an hour of silence than we can in a year from books.

The purpose of education and extracurricular activities is to provide opportunities for our children to develop discipline. Once discipline is learned, it can be applied to any area of life. Those who develop this discipline go off in search of excellence and live richer, more abundant lives. Those who do not find this grounding in discipline

The purpose of education and extracurricular activities is to provide opportunities for our children to develop discipline. Once discipline is learned, it can be applied to any area of life. Those who develop this discipline go off in search of excellence and live richer, more abundant lives. Those who do not find this grounding in discipline may do many things, but none well.

One thing I have noticed about continuous learners is they tend to have pen and paper with them at all times, because they never know when they are going to hear something great or have an idea.

we became the books we read.

We live in a world drowning in information and desperate for wisdom.

If children develop a love for learning, they will become lifelong learners—and continuous learners tend to be successful at everything they turn their attention to.

The day you fall in love with learning, your life changes forever.

Loneliness is not brutal like that, but it can be a painful way to learn. Interestingly, solitude is the cure for loneliness. When we are afraid of being alone, we should go into it. Dive deep into it. Solitude teaches profound lessons, especially about ourselves. Feeling lonely has value. Sometimes we need to turn inward to discover what we need to hold on to and what we need to let go of.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know—that is curiosity. To know, to be known—that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know—that is gospel duty.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long. Had I never learned to like books, I would have become the dullest sort of hermit.

The monks sped up the process up for us laowai who have less time, less patience for basics, and a greater need for external markers of our accomplishments.

All jargon of the schools.