Quotes About Learning

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I know that bein a idiot an all, I ain't sposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it's just because nobody never took the time to talk to me bout it.

Tennessee to places like Corinth, Nashville, and even Shiloh, which at that point he'd never heard of.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches you nothing but the shape of the spoon .

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

One who is learning to serve should not do the same thing today as he did yesterday. If he is the same today as yesterday, he has squandered his opportunities. If we do not know what the Lord is doing today or what is going to happen today, we are missing the opportunity.

Our element is unending immaturity.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Computer machen keine Fehler, aber es ist nun einmal die Natur der Menschen, Fehler zu machen und daraus zu lernen. Nimm ihnen dieses Recht und du nimmst ihnen ihre Menschlichkeit

Wenn er irgendwann einmal ein Buch der verpassten Chancen schreiben würde, dann würden die letzten beiden Tage darin einen besonderen Platz einnehmen. Gleich hinter dem Kapitel Gesammelte Dummheiten.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon.

we read, if we have the true reader's zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle,—as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction,—as a means of seeing and enjoying the world of men and affairs.

We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff

When people get hurt,they learn to hate...when people hurt others,they become hated and racked with guilt.But knowing that pain allows people to be kind.Pain allows people to grow...and how you grow is up to you.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.