Quotes About Learning

It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.

Se bem que, cruel engano, nós nos afastemos com frequência da felicidade através dos meus que verdadeiramente nos deveriam dela aproximar. Daí os frequentes equívocos a seu respeito: que deve ser reivindicado como um dever, aprendido como uma matéria escolar, construído como uma casa: que se compra, qual moeda, que outros enfim possuem de fonte segura e que basta imitá-los para sermos inundados como eles pela mesma aura.

he's beginning to understand that grief doesn't strike bargains. There's no way of avoiding the agony—or even of getting through it faster. It's got him in its claws and it won't let go till he's learnt every lesson it has to teach.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

I went back and read all the Berkshire Hathaway annual reports. My life changed course as a result.

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.

I took biology two years in a row just to eat the specimens.

Every Moment is a Teaching Moment

What Michelle didn't yet know was that there is a vast difference between playing and leading. The point guard position in basketball is one of the great tutorials on leadership, and it ought to be taught in classrooms. Anyone can perfect a dribble with muscle memory;

What this tells me is that facts are only the smallest components of memory.

All you have to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you will find people who are eager to fill your head with information." WALT DISNEY

To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi

Accept the pain of the past. Learn the lessons of the past. Embrace the nostalgic memories of the past. Then dream big dreams of the future and start chasing them!

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious—and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." WALT DISNEY

As he grew, what he lacked in formal education, he made up for through diligent, determined reading. The where, when, and how of reading mattered not to Abraham Lincoln, who said, "The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other thing.

If you only read what you agree with, you'll never learn anything. - James D. Hodgson

Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.

Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past.

Don't let reading make you arrogant. It can happen-believe me. Maybe you've even met a person or two like this, someone who thinks that being an English literature major or particularly well read puts them above the crowd. Take my advice:even if it's true, don't go there. ... I urge you to read, knowing the words you absorb will come out in your life in ways that inspire, uplift and encourage someone else. Life is meant to be passed on. Read with a servant's heart.

W]e are changed by what we read. Close that book, and you are not the same person anymore. Because of what you just read, your worldview--your understanding, your compassion for others, your ability to engage intelligently with others--has expanded a little. Books help us grow….

If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.