Quotes About Learning

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

No era una vergüenza el no saber, sino solo una señal que podía llevar hacia una nueva verdad.

At first, I was conscious of wanting to please the Professor, but gradually that feeling faded and I realized it had become a battle between the problem and me.

there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

history is like a mirror that helps you to see through yourself.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

I'm still learning my craft.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

As integral as religion was to his sense of self, it was not until he reached West Point and combined his spiritual discipline with Blaik's military discipline that his coaching persona began to take its mature form. Everything he knew about organizing a team and preparing it to play its best, Lombardi said later, he learned at West Point. "It all came from Red Blaik.

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

Only idiots think they know everything I admit that I know nothing just so I am not an idiot

That's the trouble," Chambers replied. "You have allowed part of your brain to stagnate for want of use." Within a few minutes, Oswald had scribbled out a list of more than fifty books—philosophical

The decent docent doesn't doze;He teaches standing on his toes.His student dassn't doze and does,And that's what teaching is and was.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow.

It is most useful," Geshe Wangpo told Sam, "to share one's knowledge with others. Otherwise, what is the point in having it?

Sometimes our instinct, our negative conditioning, can be overpowering. Later we regret very much what we have done. But that is no reason to give up on yourself—the buddhas, they have not given up on you. Instead, learn from your mistake and move on. Like that.