Quotes About Learning

You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person.

Every happening is a lesson, a message.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

A watched child never learns.

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

Disaster comes only because of ignorance.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

I like things that are educational and educational. I like things that are inspirational.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.