Quotes About Reflection

I am still learning. (at age 87)

Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.

We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.