Learning Quotes

Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

The great beauty of life is its mystery, the inability to know what course our life will take, and diligently work to transmute into our final form based upon a lifetime of constant discovery and enterprising effort. Accepting the unknown and unknowable eliminates regret.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

~ Richard Bach

I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Time' is the most threatening four letter word.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

~ Jean Thompson

Whenever new knowledge causes you to question your previous assumptions, the stage is set for creative transformation.

~ Cathy Wild

A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation.

~ Pearl Zhu

Teaching is a dialogue, and it is through the process of engaging students that we see ideas taken from the abstract and played out in concrete visual form. Students teach us about creativity through their personal responses to the limits we set, thus proving that reason and intuition are not antithetical. Their works give aesthetic visibility to mathematical ideas.

~ Martha Boles

While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.

~ Donovan L. Graham

Write the words on your heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.

~ Johnny Rich

Consider, for a moment, how profound is an education: every human-made object in the world is the result of one. Every car, computer, particle accelerator, thatched hut, hairstyle, soufflé, piano concerto. These are the products not only of the skilled hands and nimble minds of their creators, but the result of whole traditions and systems of education. Change education, and you change the world.

~ Zander Sherman

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

~ Criss Jami

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything, our observation opens the windows of knowledge around us.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

~ Jim Henson

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo.

~ Lorii Myers

I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one's sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness.

~ Jay Woodman

Self learner, reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

True success is achieved by stretching oneself, learning to feel comfortable being uncomfortable.

~ Ken Poirot