Learning Quotes
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.
He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.
Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner
Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.
Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.
GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.
Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.
To inspire others, you must first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.
None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.
Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.
