Quotes About Learning

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

Sound simple? My best advice is to try it. The way the human brain works, when you write down important points, your mind-body tends to keep that information in a very secure place … and best of all, you won't forget it.

Let's not automatically turn to the next page in the textbook because it's the next page of the textbook, but because that page best serves the students we are teaching. And if the next page isn't as good as the one 57 pages later, let's go to the one 57 pages away without guilt.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

When Aaji first learned to spell her name, she did a little dance.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage

Books are good.

Even more beautiful than the land that we passed, or the months spent camping on the plains, was learning to live with uncertainty.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills but about being initiated into a certain sensibility.

So before you let people blunder around reinventing the process every time someone gets the urge to innovate, it makes sense to understand it first.

the ratio of assumptions you have to make relative to knowledge that you possess is high—a different set of disciplines needs to be employed.

Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were categorical imperatives, she abandoned religion and embraced atheism. She devoted herself to Science, getting to the point of renouncing marriage for scientific research. ...Unlike other people, Rita Levi Montalcini was a complete human being.

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.