Quotes About Learning

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.

What in the world are we going to do with you?' Mrs. Ritter asked. I could think of a few things. Take it easy on me. Teach me different. Care about me just a little. So many times that year I wanted to shout,'It's not like I'm waking up in the morning and trying to mess up. I just don't get it!

There's nothing wrong with having a different way of learning. What's wrong is when people blame you for it.

Patience is peace. Learning to be patient is a continual practice that takes years to ripen. Let it unfold, day by day, and be gentle with yourself in the learning.

Our life purpose has both a general and a specific aspect. The first has nothing to do with our work in the world and everything to do with learning how to give and receive love.

The further we go on the spiritual path, the more we realize what beginners we really are.

The modern proverb "Use it or lose it" is very wise. If we don't exercise our muscles, they waste away. If we don't exercise our minds, they begin to close.

The tendency to judge people in an either/or way—enlightened or not, saint or sinner—makes it difficult to learn from the people we meet, whether or not we consider them "teachers." If we broaden our point of view to consider every person a potential teacher, every encounter will prompt the question "What can I learn from this person?

The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

A voracious reader with a large memory for what she read

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Marion Quade, the only member of the class to take Pythagoras in her stride, was a favourite pupil, in the sense that a savage who understands a few words of the language of a shipwrecked sailor is a favourite savage.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.