Quotes About Learning

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet