Quotes About Learning

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

Be teachable, you're not always right.

Experience is the best teacher- Personal but also vicarious

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw -- Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

They can hardly separate mere learning from witchcraft, and are fond of words and verses that keep half their secret to themselves.

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

Cuando buscas sabiduría, la primera fase es el silencio, la segunda fase es la escucha, la tercera fase es el recuerdo, la cuarta es la práctica y la quinta la enseñanza".

Las mareas calmas no crean marineros hábiles.

Little children, never be disobedient to those who are wiser than you for disobedience was the beginning of all the miseries and sorrows of life.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

And, like children, you will swallow without protest everything bitter I shall give you only when it is carefully coated with the thick syrup of adventure.

I learned in the course of time that the mind is a lifebuoy.

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

They'll live their lives in their ignorance, but not I. Why do I read books if not to live up to principles that are worth striving for?

When people talk about starting over, it's only wishful thinking: what came before, what happened yesterday, did not come or happen in vain.

For years I have had the belief that all my questions will be answered by the books I'm reading. Books, however, only lead to other books.

start each day with that i don't understand

Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development.

You observe a lot by watching.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.