top of page
.png){kind=small}
Learning Quotes
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
15
"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."
15
"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side."
15
"A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!"
15
"When our challenge persists, returning in different forms, it may be a sign for us to accepted it as a valuable lesson."
14
"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information."
14
"In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?"
14
"Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world."
14
"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."
14
"The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself."
14
"Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." ... It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude."
14
"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."
14
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."
14
"When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice."
14
"Thus the struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after year from school to school. The authorities go to infinite pains to nip the few profound or more valuable intellects in the bud. And time and again the ones who are detested by their teachers are frequently punished, the runaways and those expelled, are the ones who afterwards add to society's treasure. But some - and who knows how many? - waste away quiet obstinacy and finally go under."
14
"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."
14
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
14
"You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson."
14
"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."
14
"We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates."
14
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
14
"I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong."
14
"Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."
14
"I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff."
14
"Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true (and how do you know)? 2. What problem do you have?"
14
"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
14
"We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life."
14
"The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain."
14
"After you acquire knowledge and skill, aim to be a practitioner. Time for practice on the job or in life will still test your authenticity. Knowledge is one of the greatest sources of confidence, and you will need that confidence to do your work and demonstrate you know what you have been trained for."
14
"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."
14
"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."
14
bottom of page