Quotes About Learning

So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Always afraid of making mistakes, always afraid of making wrong decisions, always trying to be perfect; fact is no one is perfect, and the best lessons derive from the mistakes and the wrong decisions we make. Don't be afraid of mistakes, and never regret the decisions you make; use them as a life lesson, and build on them.

It seems that after the African migration, small numbers of Homo sapiens were better adapted to manage these shifts in climate than earlier versions of human had been. If so, this happened not because of classic Darwinian evolution (there wasn't time) but because of the accelerated development caused by culture – language, learning, copying, remembering.

Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it. A skeleton in a museum or a drop of blood

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less than a layperson about many scientific topics—like bear behavior.

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it.

you want to get as close to the data as you can get, because it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding

because it's the questions you don't know to ask

it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

Maybe he is interested in some subject, but it isn't a subject we teach here

I'm learning to be patient.

They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.

We couldn't complete the world or ourselves. We could only live, and look for small graces, and learn to accept the munificence of change.

Being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience.

We owe to the Jews,' wrote Winston Churchill in 1920, 'a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all wisdom and learning put together.

In April, Churchill decided he should try to alter his speaking style, to make it less sonorous and Victorian, to avoid sounding pompous to younger listeners. At sixty, he was an old dog to be learning new oratorical tricks

Only one thing in history is certain: that Mankind is unteachable.

Siempre estoy dispuesto a aprender», diría Churchill en 1952, «aunque no siempre me guste que me den lecciones».