Quotes About Learning

Perhaps there is always something in our head that is ready to learn.

No se aprende nada lastimando a los demás; solo aprendes cuando te lastiman a ti.

Everybody is born so they can learn how to live a good life loving everybody and being nice. Animals already know how to do this, so they don't have to stay as long.

Travel broadens one's scope," he explained. "Anytime you do any traveling, your scope will be broadened. It doesn't mean you change, you broaden.

Read everything and be kind.

Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.

A book isn't rigorous if students aren't reading it.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth

Beware, O Man - for knowledge must to thee, Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be.

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance

Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

In the school of hard knocks, where passion and performance are far more important than answering questions correctly, the best student is probably 50 percent better at science than the second best. Not 2 percent better. This is incredibly important.

Cotton added, "zeale is but a wilde-fire without knowledge.

Reading is one of the important part of being a person.

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

I feel like God is waiting to see if I am waiting. If he just flooded in with answers and guidance right now, I would not have changed; I would not have learned to wait and trust without the answers and without a road map for the future. So I'm kind of glad that God was silent, because I actually want to wait; I want to prove my mettle to God. I don't necessarily want ease and instant anything any more.

She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.

You see this circle? The size of this circle represents everything that I know about basketball. But the size of this ball represents everything about the game that has never been discovered.

It's always stimulating to visit new places, acquire fresh knowledge and expand your portfolio of nightmares.