Quotes About Learning

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.

I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.