Quotes About Learning

Libraries are where it all begins.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

I have not always behaved well. I can admit that. I get things wrong, I learn.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

Coming into London having the experience of Beijing is really good.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

I belong to this family: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family. Since my childhood I have always wanted to sing and learn music. Whenever I saw Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan play, I felt inspired to be like him.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

attention and the awareness that arises from it are the doorway to true education and learning — life-long gifts that keep deepening with use.

There can be no resolution leading to growth until the present situation has been faced completely and you have opened to it with mindfulness, allowing the roughness of the situation itself to sand down your own rough edges. In other words, you must be willing to let itself to become your teacher.

This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that are causing you to suffer.

The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.

My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.

The urge to catalog the myriad blunders in order to "learn from the mistakes" is for the most part an exercise in denial and self-deception.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times. ANNIE DILLARD, HOLY THE FIRM  

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times. ANNIE DILLARD, HOLY THE FIRM

Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.

So what can we, in our time, learn from the past, even while we're getting knocked in the head? That the perfect should not be the enemy of the good. That compromise is the oxygen of democracy. And that we learn the most from those who came before not by gazing up at them uncritically or down on them condescendingly but by looking them in the eye and taking their true measure as human beings, not as gods.

Once, when a Republican congressman from Massachusetts accused Lincoln of having changed his mind, Lincoln replied, "Yes, I have; and I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I THINK IT IS MONTAIGNE who has said that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head

The people have often made mistakes, but given time and the facts, they will make the corrections. —HARRY S. TRUMAN

Lincoln replied, "Yes, I have; and I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Addison had written in words reproduced by Murray. "The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.