Quotes About Learning

Over the next three or four years you'll do things you'll remember later with deep embarrassment. But when you're old you'll wish you'd done all of them twice.

Un hombre siempre se perfecciona al lograr comprender algo

I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. 'All men make mistakes,' said the ancient Greek Sophocles. 'But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.

Sin embargo, un exceso de disciplina podía acabar con el pensamiento crítico.

the enlightenment of mankind." Books, and the wisdom

I'm allowed to sit in on the lessons

My stepfather, the builder, taught me how to perform certain operations in geometry: how to divide a line exactly in half, how to draw a right angle, and how to draw one square inside another so that the smaller is half the area of the larger.

from her training, that

He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and givin reassurance

He was twelve years old, and he sought ringing certainties. He would have to learn slowly, like everyone else.

The fact that someone was capable of learning to read and write did not, unfortunately, make him intelligent.

The first book that really appealed to Jack told the whole history of the world from the Creation to the founding of Kingsbridge Priory, and when he finished it he felt he knew everything that had ever happened.

What don't I know?

There is a special mixture of wisdom and innocence that comes only to adolescents. - Ursula Dewar

Na verdade, tinha a impressão de que possuía mais informação e compreendia menos as coisas.

Until you had a child, you did not understand how much they had to learn.

Todos los hombres cometen errores», dijo el filósofo griego Sófocles.

Rany, nawet chinscy komunisci niejednego by sie mogli od siostry nauczyc!

Students were expected to learn hundreds of lines from the Greek and Roman classics, then, later, from poetry in their native tongues. This tradition has faded from our lives, and something powerful has been lost.

To know some Shakespeare gives you a head start in life.

In the early days of my first property management and real estate deals, there was a lot of trial and error and I made my share of mistakes. But for every one mistake I made, I learned ten lessons and got smarter every day. I started to see patterns, discover formulas and systems, and develop a network of people I could count on. It took time and it took work, but the more I pursued my dream, the luckier I felt and the more often magical opportunities presented themselves to me.

But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as possible — and, in friendly competition, to try to find more of them than the next birder. We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.