Quotes About Learning

Regret is a useless emotion: it's like brushing your teeth after you find a cavity.

You don't have to be smart to get good grades, you just have to do what they tell you

Too many times we lose today's battles because we're still engaged in fighting yesterday's.

people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.

Regret is a useless emotion.

Einstein said that insantiy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Only the nonreader fears books.

I read.. because one life is not enough

I read because one life isn't enough.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...

You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the world "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know. Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

I'd come to realize that if a man is ever going to grasp anything it won't be by learning. His being has to change. You are what you do, not what you know. A man never learns; he becomes. To become, you must find ways and means to change your entire state of mind. This in turn will lead to a change of being.

You don't know anything until you know Everything.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

Perhaps the three principles closest to my heart--and the most radical--are learning to accept your ignorance, paying more attention to the question than to the answer, and never being afraid to go in an opposite direction to find a solution.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

People educate each other through the mediation of the world.