Quotes About Learning

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

Don't waste your sufferings.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

Losing's a great motivator.

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"