Quotes About Learning

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Cheap matter offered they to boyish wit

It costs nothing to learn from other people's experience.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

FRANK: Do you know Yeats? RITA: The wine lodge? FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet. RITA: No. FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance. RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.

It's what we do Rita; we pluck birds from the sky and nail them down to learn how they fly.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

The sheer act of persistently expressing our thoughts on some subject causes us to learn more about that subject, even when no new information has been provided from without.

Whenever you write down a perception or an idea, you reinforce the behavior of being perceptive or creative. Whenever you fail to describe or record such insights, you reinforce the behavior of being unperceptive and uncreative. Simple, isn't it?

Among the many benefits of Socratic Method is that it causes students to reach their own insights and express them in their own words.

what is expressed by the learner is a hundred times more productive learning than what is expressed to the learner

Demarcating the border between sense and nonsense makes interpretive frames reflexive and therefore serves as a catalyst for exploring the very parameters of learning.

Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations . . . The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.