Quotes About Learning

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

The truth is that our enjoyments and our evaluations, like our trades, are learned; intensive knowledge, as well as extensive, is acquired. We learn how to value possessions as well as how to make them; our passions, our disgusts, and our ambitions are learned. Just as we have evolved ways of transmuting physical elements from one to another, so we have evolved ways of transmuting experience into meaning.

Liberal learning is that which underlies, that which gives purpose and direction to practical skills. It tries to distinguish between the more and the less important, between the grand and the trivial, and to concern itself rather with the center than with the periphery.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Life is but a series of misunderstandings.

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

México, el país que produce personas orgullosamente nacionalistas, pero educativamente mediocres.

So I did indeed set out, as John Steinbeck says in his gavels with Charley, "not to instruct others but to inform myself.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Experience is knowing what not to do and knowing when not to do it.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant.

are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. —BUDDHA

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

The schools are there to teach your kids to read, write, and add – skills they will need if they are going to apply for and wisely invest their unemployment checks one day.