Quotes About Learning

If I had met you for the first time tonight, I would have despised you. You put me in mind of Regal." "Did I? Well, perhaps that reflect my belief that there is something to be learned from everyone that we meet.

I think I made a better boy than I do man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

Pain is the coin they use now in all their transactions. Nothing else teaches them, nothing else will satisfy them.

It's a hard way to learn, but I think that's how most of us learn about jealousy. It seems like a stupid way for anyone to feel, until someone makes you feel it.

Your mind will remember how to do something and you will think you can still do it. Your body will try. And fail.

To take what has happened to you and learn from it, instead of being trapped by it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear," Burrich said stubbornly. And, more warmly: "It's a poor teacher who tries to instruct by blows and threats. Imagine taming a horse that way. Or a dog. Even the most knot-headed dog learns better from an open hand than a stick.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me. Now

If you can read, you can learn anything.

There was always something to be learned from any experience, no matter how horrendous. As long as a man kept sight of that, his spirits could prevail against anything. It was only when one gave in and believed the universe to be nothing more than a chaotic collection of unfortunate or cruel events that one's spirit could be crushed.

I have always been more curious than wise. Yet any wisdom I have ever gained has come to me from my curiosity. So I have never learned to turn away from it.

We cannot put old heads on young shoulders.

When people do not know the past, they make the same mistakes their forebears made

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.

And remember, following Christ is a lifelong journey. Christians are foot soldiers, so to speak. Always learning. Always growing stronger.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small mind?

No matter what our age, we ought to never stop eating books, for books are the feast of the imagination.

Books -- they come home hot in your hands and then by increments they warm your life, like heated bricks in a New England bed.

Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.

A teacher comes, they say, when you are ready. And if you ignore its presence, it will speak to you more loudly. But you have to be quiet to hear.

Isn't this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?