Quotes About Learning

The more you know, the better armed you'll be for what's to come.

Ricci created memory palaces in his mind. Each item in the palace represented a series of concepts. The rooms and locations within the palace served as directories and files, similar to computer data storage. Ricci instantaneously learned, retained and retrieved hundreds of new Chinese kanji, to the astonished delight of Chinese nobles.

Many rob themselves of intimacy with God because they choose to learn vicariously through someone else's study.

As far as giving up Frank, we have only a few months more with him before he has to go to monkey college anyway." "That's probably where you'll end up going to school too.

when you are in the company of the unfamiliar, you look for unfamiliar wisdom. You'll find lots of it, and it will make you richer.

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.

One of us will just have to stay at the cottage to keep an eye on her.' [...] Let's see if Widow Hazel wouldn't take her in during the day, maybe teach her something useful -' No, remember when she learned how to knit? Now we're stuck wearing these dreadful hats.' Not so loud! She'll hear you.' In a lower voice one of the dwarfs said, 'H.A.T.S.' Apparently Snow White didn't know how to knit or to spell.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

May you never forget what is worth remembering, Nor ever remember what is best forgotten. Irish proverb

After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.

Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.

The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

As Rebecca Bigler of the University of Texas points out, "Going to integrated schools gives you just as many chances to learn stereotypes as to unlearn them.

Yliopistossa kohtaa eloonjäämisvietin degeneroituja muotoja.

Ihmiset eivät opi paremmiksi, varovaisemmiksi vain.

Vaikeinta on unohtaa oppimansa, olla taas tavallinen.

A good mentor does not simply go through her life hoping that others will pick up what she knows, but is actively engaged in helping others learn. She is tuned in enough to notice what skills are needed and is patient enough to teach them.