Quotes About Learning

So much can be learned from other traditions. In the long history of the Christian church, so many different, even conflicting, points of view have been embraced as true and valuable.

Wisdom leads us to dialogues with the past. It doesn't lead us back to the past.

The point is that Proverbs 26:4–5 doesn't tell me what to do. It wasn't designed to. It models something better: the permission to think it through, figure it out, and learn from experience for next time. In fact, more than just giving us permission, the contradiction sets up our expectation that we will have to think it through.

Wisdom is about learning how to work through the unpredictable, uncontrollable messiness of life so you can figure things out on your own in real time.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything.

The possibility was rejected because what we have learned of you so far indicates that your race will come through this time successfully. Edenists especially have the social maturity to face that which follows.

age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life.

knowledge is a true power in any society

If you're looking for family entertainment, don't study history or prehistory.

Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights

Only the second-rate never make mistakes.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

Our respect is such that we assume that children will try to fix their error and make better decisions next time.

Do you think that when Barack Obama was a young boy in kindergarten, do think that sometimes he made mistakes?

For example, in Susie's kindergarten class, children have responsibilities, including being the teacher for certain routines.

Look how you figured that out together. You made a plan, you listened to each other, you made a diagram … I don't think you would have figured it out without doing that.

Oh, so if we look at the picture we can tell which word makes sense." Then, rather than praising them, she offers a comment that positions them powerfully: "Thanks for teaching us that.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Er zijn vrouwen die een soufflé kunnen maken. Die op het juiste moment een recept van mokkaparfait in hun sportbeha hebben zitten. Die met de ene hand hun eigen bruiloftstaart kunnen bouwen en met de andere pepersteak Nossi Bé maken. Daar moeten wij ons allen over verheugen. Als het maar niet betekent dat wij een slecht geweten moeten hebben omdat we de eerste beginselen van het brood roosteren nog niet onder de knie hebben.

Kinder haben keine Vorurteile, und die Urteile werden ihnen erst gemacht. Nicht von den Dichtern, sondern von denen, die scheinbar erfolgreich die Gegenwart besetzen.

One thing Pete had learned over the years as a participant in so many disparate cultures, and as a family historian, is that almost nothing that can be imagined is impossible, and that, in fact, most of those things, in one form or another, have occurred. Scary really.