Quotes About Learning

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?

Do not refer to your toy-books, and say you have seen that before. Answer me rather, if I ask you, have you understood it before?

Studiando, noi diventiamo tutti filosofi; dovrete dunque avvezzarvi, ogni volta che un risultato vi sorprende, specialmente quando questo risultato vi par nuovo, dovrete avvezzarvi, dico, a chiedere a voi stessi o ad altri: «Quale è la causa di ciò? Perché le cose succedono a questo modo?» E presto o tardi finirete sempre col trovare la risposta.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

Teachers themselves uninterested in art or lacking faith in the ability of students to think for themselves can make art into something baffling or boring for the rest of the student's life.

Time amid the silence of nature, in other words, makes you smarter.

He wondered if modern society, with its flood of information and tempest of noise, was only making us dumber.

Each man sees what his own experience has taught him.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another's

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

His textbooks

Professor Sprout

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

I loved learning about the history of things

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

I think it is significant that it is the younger churches with no pretensions to western `sophistication' who look at the Acts, learn from it, and go out in the power of the same Lord expecting him to do equally mighty things through them. That is happening in Latin America, much of Asia, and a great deal of Africa. The Christians in these regions seem to have a facility we have lost for reading the story, learning from it, and applying it.