Quotes About Learning

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

Because with all that I read, all that I learn, I discover how much I do not know. Ideas batter me like hailstones. Questions but no answers. Who am I? Where am I from? Do I have a family?

To the proud heart and ambitious spirit this may seem a poor, unproductive attitude—but to those of us who have entered the school of Christ and have begun to learn of him who was meek and lowly in heart—when we have drunk, in any measure, into the spirit of Him who made Himself of no reputation, we then see things quite differently.

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

Scholars have an inordinate respect for long books, and have a terrible rancune against those that attempt to cheat on them. They cannot bear to imagine that short-cuts are possible, that specialism is not an inevitability, that learning need not be stoically endured. They cannot bear writers allegro, and when they read such texts—and even pretend to revere them—the result is (this is not a description without generosity) 'unappetizing'.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

One still unused experiment from this time was an exploration of backward vocals. A phrase written out backwards letter for letter and then read out will not sound correct when reversed, but a spoken phrase recorded and played backwards can be learnt and recited. This gives a very odd effect when it is in turn played backwards. 'Neeagadelouff' was one I remember: it should come out as 'fooled again'.

You musn't neglect your education in favor of your studies.

Psychologist Dr. Terry Orlick has been studying excellence in sports, business, and life for decades. He is world renowned for his motivational and mental approach to peak performance. Orlick has determined that there are seven components of excellence: commitment, focus, confidence/trust/belief, positive imagination, mental readiness, controlling distractions, and constant learning.

If you know you will not be perfect, then those mistakes can roll off your shoulders as you move on to the next play. But if perfection is your ideal, those mistakes will cripple you with frustration. So be realistic, understand that you and others will make mistakes, and use those as building blocks for the future.

Education does not promise success, but makes it easier.

Only the curious have something to find.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

Not knowing the right definitions is no different from not having the right tools to fix a burst water pipe.

I want to learn, to wander and ask and think and listen like…like a priest of a prince." "Not gold?" "Gold comes to priests and princes.

No one but her uncle knew that under Fursey's tutelage she could make her letters or that she understood Latin if it was spoken slowly-and even he seemed content to let her learn privately.

She might wear a blade, but she also wears skirts, priest, like you. So she will learn. Teach her. But not about your Christ. There'll be others for that, in time.

She would watch and learn. Find out why Paulinus was taking such an interest in her, the king's niece, why he seemed to want to persuade her of his god.

One day, to suit some purpose of their own, her mother or her uncle would pluck her from her life and send her to live in a fen with a man she didn't know. In the world of skirt and sword, it was part of her wyrd. But not all her wyrd, and not yet. There was so much to learn, so much to know.

I thought of all the households in this country that would rejoice at a child's ferocious need to learn, of the fact that this book had been hidden away, and wanted to push Adeline Carpenter's face into the stew to boil along with her dumplings!

She looked, left and right. She couldn't see as much as she'd like; the unfamiliar veil got in the way. No doubt she'd learn to manage that, how to use it to her advantage, as her mother did.

Ah, she'd forgotten that. Well, the child needed reminding sometimes.

She was beginning to see patterns, learning how to think.

I missed you showing me things, making them magic. So I decided to find them myself. Like this.