Quotes About Learning

One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to.

Culture and education are two sides of the same coin, and we cannot understand one without understanding the other.

The purpose of education is to produce autonomous learners who can continue to learn after they leave school.

Education is not just about learning facts, but about learning how to learn.

What a doctor wants... is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.

Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

Every day of our lives, every Christian in this world is benefiting from the wisdom and talents of non-Christians. Let us humble ourselves and learn at Jesus' feet to be thankful for this constant reality.

We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.

This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.

To memorize Scripture effectively, you must have a plan. The plan should include a selection of well-chosen verses, a practical system for learning those verses, a systematic means of reviewing them to keep them fresh in your memory, and simple rules for continuing Scripture memory on your own.

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees" (Psalm 119:71).

Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 PETER 3:18)

In this game, mistakes and errors are good. They help us uncover new relationships.

Scientists are seldom familiar with the details of research beyond their own discipline.

Empiricism isn't true, and it is time to put away childish things.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

The second mistake is the tacit assumption that first you go to school, and when you are done, you go get a job. This made sense when jobs and skills changed on a generational timescale, but it does not in today's fast-moving labor markets. These two phases of life need to be strongly interleaved, or at least the opportunity for new skill acquisition must be explicit and omnipresent.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.