Learning Quotes

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

When we know better, we do better.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid andvigorous nutriment.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

I don't seem to have any real strategy or pattern when it comes to love... At times I've been really guarded and careful and afraid to trust someone. But other times, you want to jump in headfirst. I've had moments of thinking, this is who I love and I don't care what anyone says. Those moments are beautiful and wild and exciting, but I've learned that those moments can end up hurting you in the end. I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.

Each day that we live, we're taking in new information, ideas, concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand guard at the doors of our minds to make sure that whatever we're allowing to enter will cause our lives to be enriched, that the experiences we pursue will add to our stockpile of possibility.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place, lighted their homes, cooked their meals and so on. So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

Especially learn how to see.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.