Quotes About Learning

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Buddhist practice is about developing character. And relationships are the forum, the classroom, in which we learn how.

What made me happiest was using what I'd learned to do something of value to society.

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

A person who speaks as if he knows everything soon drives away his listeners. The Universe communicates itself to us in many ways, and sometimes, it is through the words of others. If we act the know-it-all, others may refrain from talking to us, and we may fail to get the message they could have given us.

It is more important that we listen to others than to always be speaking, for in that way we learn what there is to know. We should be easy to talk to, and grateful for new information.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play?

In learning about a person, you learn something about the world and about yourself, and if you can handle what you learn, you can get closer, much closer to them.

You should take [dogs] to hunt on different grounds at different times, in order that you may experience varieties in the chase, and that you yourself may become acquainted with the country.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

bu wen bu rou wen zi, wen zi bu ruo jian zhi. jian zhi bu ruo zhi zi, zhi zi bu ruo xing zi. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. But involve me, I will understand. XUN ZI (PHILOSOPHER, WARRING STATES PERIOD, 475–221 BC)

At least you're still learning a lot. Even if everything is broken.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity.

Por mais revolucionárias que sejam, disse, as pessoas não podem viver sem livros. Sem livros não compreenderíamos o mundo; sem livros não poderíamos desenvolver; sem livros, a natureza não pode servir a humanidade.

He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers. This gave us confidence even when our best efforts came to nothing.

he seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say "we don't know".

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

But by that time I had no interest in learning more about him, and I accepted the role of silent accomplice when it came to my mother's illusions.

And it helped that he forgot what he'd taught me before, so I was free to repeat the same question until I