Quotes About Learning

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

I could get rejected for jobs in acting, directing, or writing for the rest of my life, but nothing would ever take away what the experience of directing my first feature film had taught me: that I know myself better than I think I do and that I know my worth better than others think they do.

GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: [from academe] A modern school where football is taught.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the history of Spain, write about the history of Spain - fiction or nonfiction. If your fascinated by the old west, maybe your character lives there.

All education has this provisional quality. In school, as well as in dreams, we learn in childhood a great deal that finds no immediate use or expression. For many years we may scarcely remember the lesson, then comes the occasion for it, and the information needed is suddenly restored.

Experiment! Meet new people. That's better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

Give your ears, hear the sayings, Give your heart to understand them; It profits to put them in your heart; Woe to him who neglects them!

We learn to acquire knowledge and with wisdom, we apply it.

A professional wasnt a proffesional before he started learning the proffesion.

Dont be fraustrated when you make mistakes, just learn and never take that step again.

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.

Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

By the age of seventeen I had accumulated information, then I learnt how to believe.

The radio, I've told over and again, was always another school for my mind. I listened to the radio all my young life, seriously and continuously, changing my focus, I guess, as I changed. The TV must serve the same purpose now for kids.

History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. A true teacher pushes the students out of the nest to strengthen the wings.

Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.