Quotes About Learning

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.