Quotes About Learning

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

Never buy your kid a Puzzle that you can't solve!

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

I think there is some methodology in my travels.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.

I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Humility" If you don't have it, you're gonna get it.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Fool me once, shame on youfool me twice, shame on mefool me thrice, I'm gonna get the frying pan!

I am astounded at how long it takes to discover... for the first time, the things I have learned... over and over again all my life.

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.

The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people, " he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.

In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally piss off our parents.

There are two ways to learn life's lessons, the easy way and the hard way. I seem to prefer the hard way.