Quotes About Learning

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do

This means that every moment of discipline and correction must be accompanied with instruction.

The most important thing that a child could ever learn about is the existence, character, and plan of God.

You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship.

None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied.

Face the fact today that you'll never outgrow your need for grace, no matter how much you learn and how much you mature, until you are on the other side and your struggle is over because sin is no more (see Phil. 3:12–16). The way to begin to celebrate the grace that God so freely gives you every day is by admitting how much you need it.

We all fail somehow, someway every day. Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

My brain is open.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of judgement.

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Only by understanding the past may we free ourselves from its tyranny.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

I know everything I know about.

But you need to cultivate patience, youngling. And you need to listen to my words of wisdom, because as far as you are concerned, I am Obi-Wan fucking Kenobi. Okay?

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder...

French mathematician Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963): "The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain." I