Quotes About Learning

There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever hear or see anything as it truly is, or if a lifetime is only long enough to begin learning how to watch and listen.

If someone really interests you, you'll learn about them yourself.

Keep a journal of disappointments, failures, and self-destructive actions. It's important to write this down because these are the kinds of things your self-serving bias will want to forget or minimize.

Each day's practice does some good, and if you slip and fall off your diet or exercise program or mindfulness practice, all that you have learned before is not undone; it's still there in your brain waiting for you to get back in the saddle.

we can reprogram our own brains through focused practice of any new skill, through attending to ourselves in a mindful, noncritical way.

Science knows now that our brain does not simply store our experiences. Each experience changes the brain, structurally, electrically, chemically. The brain becomes the experience. If we are careful about the experiences we give our brains, we can change the brain itself.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island.' Walt Disney.

are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.' Gilbert Highet.

a thousand hearings aren't worth one seeing, and a thousand seeings aren't worth one doing).

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.

As you grow older, Michael, you'll learn an important lesson—that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promis.

Kids don't come with owner's manuals. You have to figure each of them out, and by the time you do, they're gone.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

If the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. —Madeleine L'Engle

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.