Quotes About Learning

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

Eu n-am tr?it. Abia acum am început s? pricep via?a. Auzi? S? mor!... ?i s? r?mân? atîtea c?r?i necitite de mine!... S? se fi întîmplat ?i s? se întîmple atîtea pe lume, atîtea, de care n-am mai avut timp s? aflu, s? aud.

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 brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

Education - The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations." (1828 Edition of Noah Webster)

Complacency is the enemy of study.

The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.

Communists must listen attentively to the views of people outside the Party and let them have their say. If what they say is right, we ought to welcome it, and we should learn from their strong points; if it is wrong, we should let them finish what they are saying and then patiently explain things to them.

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant." --Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

For another thing, there's so much they don't know. And not knowing things makes them know lots of other things grownups can't know. That sounds confusing and it is. But look at it this way. Every time you teach a kid something, you teach him a hundred things that are impossible because that one thing is so. By the time we grow up, our world is so hedged around by impossibilities that it's a wonder we ever try anything new.

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.

In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursue what he already knows. Everyone knows enough to condemn what he takes to be no good, but no one knows enough to condemn what he has already taken to be good.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

REMEMBER THAT FAILURE IS AN EVENT , NOT A PERSON..

Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

You don't have to be great at something to start, but you have to start to be great at something.