Quotes About Learning

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

I'm constantly learning and evolving. I'm fascinated with life.

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?