Quotes About Learning

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

A watched child never learns.

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question."

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Joe Blakley said, "I hate school!" "Just 'cause you didn't know the answer a while ago?" said Dan Rogers. Mrs. Long had caught Joe staring out the window instead of paying attention during math. "Know the answer ?" said Randall. "Joe didn't even know the question !

Every obstacle is a gift, every problem is an opportunity for growth.

The dance of Recovery is a process of learning to accept and integrate the Truth of Grace into our lives.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,That's a' the learning I desire.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.