Quotes About Learning

The more important value for Jewish success was a high regard for the cultivation of the intellect…

Most important for our purposes here is that the [Jewish] obsession with learning and cultivating the intellect had no precise parallel in Christian Europe in the early medieval period.

You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing.

Queréis decir que no hay diferencia entre estar despierta o dormida? ?Básicamente, no, pues siempre estamos en un estado de aprendizaje. Creemos que soñar dormidos es diferente porque a menudo esos sueños nos proporcionan mensajes y símbolos que no son comprensibles. Pero, considerad vuestro estado de vigilia, ¿no os encontráis con frecuencia envuelta en sucesos que no son comprensibles? ?le contestó Merlín.

Vos creéis saberlo todo. Merlín se echó a reír: ?Al revés. Sé que no sé nada. El Caballero miró a Merlín con recelo. Sospechaba que el mago le estaba tendiendo una trampa: ?¿Cómo podéis decir que no sabéis nada, siendo como sois tan sabio? ?Eso es lo que me hace sabio ?respondió Merlín?. Saber «nada» significa no tener que demostrar que sé «algo».

Una persona no puede correr y aprender a la vez. Debe permanecer en un lugar durante un tiempo.

Cómo llegasteis a ser tan sabio? ?Admitiendo que no sé nada ?contestó Merlín. ?No lo entiendo ?dijo el Caballero. ?Cuando creemos que lo sabemos todo, no nos queda lugar para aprender nada más. Pero si sabemos que no sabemos nada, tenemos espacio para aprenderlo todo ?le explicó Merlín.

Hemos fracasado ?gimió Julieta. Merlín les sonrió con gran ternura. ?No ?contestó?. Esto no es un fracaso, sólo es una experiencia.

La única lección que nos enseña la historia es que nunca aprendemos de ella.1

It is not that you know nothing about war, young man. It is that you have learnt one thing. And war is many things.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Hector Berlioz's witty comment, "Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of its students.

Some people choose "to go to college" rather than choose "to be educated", or choose "to eat health foods" rather than choose "to be healthy." Because this kind of choice invests undue power in the process, the result is inextricably tied to the process, and the ways in which the desired result can come about are limited.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

It's a tough business if you don't know what you're doing. But it can be extremely lucrative and very rewarding when you learn the ropes.

FIVE-STEP SUCCESS FORMULA Determine what you really want. Set a specific goal to obtain it. To be effective, this goal must include a specific time frame and plan for its accomplishment. The goal should also be written down and studied regularly. Gain knowledge about your goal—listen to tapes, talk to experts, go to seminars to learn about it. Associate with people who share your goals and attitudes while avoiding those who don't. Don't stop until you get it.

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.