Quotes About Learning

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

About the body I know very little, though I am steadily trying to improve myself, in the way animals improve themselves by licking.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

He learns a bit more slowly than a shepherd dog, but what he learns he knows forever. The Rottweiler is a very fine character dog, but not everybody is suitable for this type of dog.

The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire and which you are not going to receive through revelation.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

Only the man that knows to little, knows too much." Nero Wolfe

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try." -- Nero Wolf in Death of a Dude.

Probably no man will ever corral truth, but Protagoras came closer to it than Plato.

and when Archie Goodwin wonders about anything he finds out.

The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold—if you have one.

In a moment Wolfe said gruffly, "It is faintly encouraging that you are aware that you were stupid.

You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them." [ Life magazine, December 10, 1965]

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Turn your wounds into wisdom." Oprah Winfrey (B. 1954) MEDIA PERSONALITY AND BUSINESSWOMAN

The only real purpose of being here on this earth is to learn or to re-remember our original natural state of no limitations." Lester Levenson, from Will Power audio

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." Gautama Buddha (circa 563 BC–483 BC) FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM