Quotes About Learning

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

While you teach, you learn.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

Reading is not optional.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.