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Quotes About Learning

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
~ Aristotle
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."
~ Austin Kleon
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
~ Austin O'Malley
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
~ Ayn Rand
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.
~ B. C. Forbes
There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
~ Bill Gates
That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
~ Bill Gates
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Let my temptation be a book.
~ Eugene Field
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
~ George Eliot
Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.
~ Gilbert Highet
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
~ Jane Fonda
I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.
~ John Adams
If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.
~ John C. Maxwell
Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
~ Michael Ignatieff
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
~ Paul Wellstone
For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.
~ Philip Pullman
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.
~ Richard Hamming
A winning strategy must include losing.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned
~ Roberto Calasso
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
~ Stephen Covey