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Learning Quotes
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
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"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
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"Teaching others, he corrected himself."
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"Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself."
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"He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."
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"The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game."
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"Learning comes from books, penetration of a mystery from suffering."
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"I see you like to study, I said. "Well done.Percy snorted. "I hate to study. I've been guaranteed admission with a full scholarship to New Rome University, but they're still requiring me to pass all my high school courses and score well on the SAT. Can you believe that? Not to mention I have to pass the DSTOMP."The what? Meg asked."An exam for Roman demigods, I told her. "The Demigod Standard Test of Mad Powers.Percy frowned. "That's what it stands for?"I should know. I wrote the music and poetry analysis sections."I will never forgive you for that, Percy said."
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"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live."
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"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."
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"What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
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"Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking."
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"People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green."
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"We are always learning, we just have different teachers."
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"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
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"If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion."
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"You can learn from those who have come down from the mountain, but you won't have the same experience unless you climb yourself."
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"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
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"Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time."
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"Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect."
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"This larger goal wouldn't be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give the appearance of something happening when, in fact, almost nothing is going on. It would be the real thing."
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"You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort."
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"Knowledge cannot be maintained without character."
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"It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple."
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"I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever"."
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"Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage."
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"A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks."
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"The greatest learner in the world is one who can entertain perspective and then drop it."
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"The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop."
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"Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do."
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"It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher."
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"A benchmarking mind is an "interpreter mind which can bridge the gaps."
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"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
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"Take your time to find and understand what you don't know and in the end, you shall know that it is not all the things you know that shows you something you don't know, but something you don't know!"
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"The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture."
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"The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you."
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"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
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"We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible."
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