Quotes About Learning

A closed mind is a dying mind.

About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.

He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him

I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves; independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion. And what is gained is loss.

Everything can be simplified. With enough simplification and enough patience on the part of the parent, anything can be simplified to the point that even very young children can begin to understand it.

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second more personal and important, from himself.

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge.

A cloud of critics, of compilers, of commentators, darkened the face of learning, and the decline of genius was soon followed by the corruption of taste.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but the school of genius is solitude.

I was a student of the civil law; but my soul was inflamed with the love of letters;

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge. -V6

Let us read with method, and to propose to ourselves an to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

Aprender acerca del presente a la luz del pasado quiere también decir aprender del pasado a la luz del presente. La función de la historia es la de estimular una mas profunda comprensión tanto del pasado como del presente por su comparación recíproca.

To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.

There once was a student named Bessor, Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

A man does not learn very well, Mr. Robbins. Women, yes, because they are used to bending with whatever wind comes along. A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming.

And whether they were saintly or corrupt, scholars or scarcely able to get through the Lord's Prayer in Latin, all society's educated men had the Church to thank for their learning.

And to learn, he must be curious and also humble. For a proud man never learns anything.

If you've never studied German before or think you know nothing about it, you might be in for a little surprise. You already know many German words .And you have the advantage of being an English speaker,which means that your knowledge of that language will be a helpful tool for learning German efficiently and comfortably.

Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.

The key to learning the fear of the Lord is to stay in Scripture. When you are in the Scripture, pray that God would teach you that he is the Holy One.