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Quotes About Learning

Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.
~ Ken Carter
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
~ Lionel Shriver
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.
~ Maria Montessori
No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
~ Albert Einstein
All I know is that I do not know anything
~ Socrates
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.
~ Nick Hornby, About a Boy
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
~ Mason Cooley
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
~ Sterling W. Sill
I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.
~ Anthony Michael Hall
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
~ P. T. Barnum
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
~ Havelock Ellis
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
~ Jessye Norman
When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
~ Jet Li
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
~ Jet Li
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
~ Jet Li
Feelings are your soul's way of communicating. Pain is trying to teach you something, and if you don't listen now, it will speak louder and louder until it is heard.
~ Jewel
Parenting is constant readjustment.
~ Jewel
School doesn't help with real life.
~ Jewell Parker Rhodes
Stop trying to make the perfect move; trust your instincts more. You've been through quite a bit in the past years. I'm sure you're as good a student as you've always been." "I can't be a student for all my time!" "We are students for all our time if we're lucky enough to know it.
~ Jewelle L. Gómez
Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
~ Jewish proverb
The three foundations of learning: Seeing much; studying much; and suffering much.
~ Jhenah Telyndru
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
~ Jhene Aiko
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti