Quotes About Learning

No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing," she assured readers. "This is my invariable advice to people: Learn to cook - try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

In the classic Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel's teacher urged him always to take his next shot unburdened by previous failures to hit the target; as he improved, his teacher urged him not to be influenced by his successes either, to stay in the present moment.

Learning something new is fun.

But at the time of their call they were exceedingly ignorant, narrow-minded, superstitious, full of Jewish prejudices, misconceptions, and animosities. They had much to unlearn of what was bad, as well as much to learn of what was good, and they were slow both to learn and to unlearn.

And the gods did not kill for hubris-for hubris, they let you live long enough to learn.

Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

Writing is work. Anyone can do this, anyone can learn to do this. It's not rocket science; it's habits of mind and habits of work.

Reading teaches me the answers to the problems I haven't had yet, or to problems I didn't even know how to describe. And when I feel less alone with what troubles me, it is easier to find solutions. A book to me is like a friend, a shelter, advice, an argument with someone who cares enough to argue with me for a better answer than the one we both already have. Books aren't just a door to another world-each book is part of a door to the whole world, a door that always has more behind it.

If you put your mind to it, not as a school lesson but as a practical tool that you've got to master, you may find it a lot easier than you think.

I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social claims. Nature offers unceasingly the most novel and fascinating objects for learning. The only drawbacks to this solitude are the want of information on the progress of scientific discovery in Europe and the lack of all the advantages arising from an interchange of ideas.

I'd like to teach you the names of these trees, to confess how much I need to miss you to finish this off.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

To-day is given us mainly that we may learn to know God better, and to love Him more, and to serve Him more joyfully.

I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.

Let such teach others who themselves excel,And censure freely who have written well.

'Tis education forms the common mind:Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

Stuff the headWith all such reading as was never read:For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it,And write about it, Goddess, and about it.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Such labored nothings, in so strange a style,Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.

But where's the man who counsel can bestow,Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know?

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,No language, but the language of the heart.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.