Quotes About Learning

She was doing what she was doing, not because her actions were helping her daughter—they weren't—but because she felt too uncomfortable doing nothing. Naomi accepted the fact that everything she did was based on selfish motives. She became willing to allow her daughter to take the consequences of her own behavior and thereby perhaps learn what she needed to learn.

Your level of intelligence is not only a measure of what you have learned, but also a measure of how well you can unlearn and re-learn!

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

Quien no conoce su historia está condenado a repetir sus errores.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

Children only know what you teach them.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Lezen is een soort handgemeen tussen lezer en boek. Het is een strijd. (...) Het is een afstandelijke houding, waarin ik leer de ruimte van mijn verbeelding te vergroten, alsof ik bepaalde rollen uitprobeer. Dat is een oefening in vrijheid en geeft aan mijn eigen levensovertuiging een zekere soepelheid en groothartigheid. Door op deze manier andere wegen uit te proberen, scheppen we opnieuw ruimte om onze houding te overwegen.

I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography.

Ursula believes that it was her habit of reading these cuttings that gave her a head start with her education.

Sandy was ready for a bit of excitement in her life too. She was tired of being treated like she was so immature, like she didn't know anything about boys or sex or anything. While it was true that she didn't have any experience, she was more than ready to learn. She was ready to say goodbye to Sandra Dee. At least, she thought she was.

There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.

Louis had learned to be suspicious of the word educational . It covered, after all, a multitude of sins.

It was extraordinary, Ahmed thought, how men distinguished in one field – and he assumed that Pandit Baba Sahib was distinguished – seemed to claim for themselves wisdom in all spheres of human activity; wisdom and the right to make pronouncements which they expected you to listen to and learn from.

She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high schoolIt's a wonder I can think at all.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

The innovator's motto is this; I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

Fail often and fail cheap.

Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

listening gives you the opportunity to learn.