Quotes About Learning

We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.

Yet if someone comes to know something well, they soon tire of it and seek out something new, and repeat this pattern again and again, continually anxious to know new things, never lingering on what they've learned.

Master Shunryu Suzuki in his classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Failure is vital. It is an incredibly important quotient in the equation of a career. After you wipe away your tears, it's not a bad experience and under the right circumstances it will make you better, both as a person and as an artist.

Quem come do fruto do conhecimento é sempre expulso de algum paraíso.

People teach you two things, how to be and how not to be.

Whew, this might be getting a bit confusing. I hope you are following me so far. This is the point in every Theory of Computation course at which students either throw up their hands and say "I can't get my mind around this stuff!" or clap their hands and say "I love this stuff!" Needless to say, I was the second kind of student, even though I shared the confusion of the first.

complex system: a system in which large networks of components with no central control and simple rules of operation give rise to complex collective behavior, sophisticated information processing, and adaptation via learning or evolution.

Grandma entertained us with reading or checkers or chess so we wouldn't bother Mother as she studied for her night-school exams. She was determined to complete her master's degree.

To err is human. (Errare Humanum Est)

Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.

You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming.

It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.

In his time since Sarnak, Froi had come to learn as much about the power of silence as the power of words.

I only know one word. It means friend. I said it in her ear 'Sora. Sora. Sora.'" "And who taught you this Charynite word for friend?" "Phaedra of Alonso did. She said it was the prettiest word in Charyn." And Lucien ached to hear those words.

to be smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming...There's nothing to look forward to anymore if you don't have dreams...Because dreams are goals...and it's not going to happen today or tomorrow it's going to happen in years and ut's something to look forward to.

To be that smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming

But even the bad stuff in life can teach you something, shape you.

That books should provide for learning, but that they should also provide for enjoyment

camp is—" "—the time for new experiences, I know," Natalie said

Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.

other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.