Learning Quotes

I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.

~ Chris Matakas

There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it.

~ Chris Matakas

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

~ Septima Poinsette Clark

oh darling, The darkness is a gift, And when you realise this, You will never be defeatedAgain.

~ Nikki Rowe

The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't go to school for that, but if you're going to be there anyway, then that's the most important thing to get accomplished. That is the true education: accept no substitutes. The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity. If that's what people had you do, then you were robbed. And if you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you were at the beginning - the same beliefs, the same values, the same desires, the same goals for the same reasons - then you did it wrong. Go back and do it again.

~ William Deresiewicz

The only thing that compounds faster than interest is learning.

~ Orrin Woodward

They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage.Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you to burn you.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning.

~ Beverley Nichols

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

~ William Barrett

He had existed for a long time and was fluent in many languages - most of them…dead ones.

~ Alan Kinross

While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.

~ Criss Jami

Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

~ Edith Hamilton

When learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Learning from our mistakes is important to be able to make better choices in the future.

~ Greg Gordon

If you desire it, you must punish yourself for the sake of learning, seek every advantage in keeping up with the other clerks and in excelling them. You must study with the fervor of the blessed or the cursed.

~ Noah Gordon

Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed them,And they flew . . .— Guillaume ApollinairetFrench poet

~ Guillaume Apollinaire

Never stop learning. Never stop growing.

~ Paula Walker Baker

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from.

~ Henna Inam

To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.

~ T.f. Hodge

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give up hope. Here is to all the artists, musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, dancers, screenwriters, philosophers, inventors and poetic hearts that create a perspective of heaven we can experience in this lifetime. But most of all, here is to the wild souls that the world calls broken, insane, abnormal, weird or different because they are the ones that renew our faith, by what they overcome and create, in a world that needs a sign that God doesn’t forget the least of us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

~ Dean Koontz

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.

~ Ann Druyan

If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.

~ Curt Gabrielson

In a 1968 study of daily life in classrooms, Philip W. Jackson wrote that students spend as much as 50 percent of their time waiting for something to happen. They wait for teachers to pass out papers. They wait for slower students to get their questions answered. They wait for the lunch bell to ring. Alas, forty-five years after Jackson published his book, millions of American students are still waiting. They’re waiting for all of the old reasons, and one relatively new one: they’re waiting for our education system to catch up with their lives.

~ Monica R. Martinez

Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles.

~ Lily Brooks-Dalton

Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.

~ Idries Shah

From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands dirty and making careful observations of real stuff. In short, we have learned primarily by tinkering.

~ Curt Gabrielson

A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.

~ Carlo Arellano

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: I guess I'll find out.

~ Dean Koontz

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.

~ Shelley Noble

Interpersonal tensions can provide opportunities that transform an early childhood curriculum from pre-primary preparedness to sites of political practice.

~ Pamela Wallberg

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

~ Robert Samuelson

Will it take the rest of my life to process what has happened? I don't know.If Freddy were here, he would say, 'Yet', as per the rules of a playful accord we have concerning unacquired knowledge, whereby if one of us said they didn't know something, the other had to say 'Yet'. And then the other one--usually me--would provide the missing information, or we'd look it up, or just speculate.

~ Liz Jensen

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

~ Janet Robertson

You don't have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others for wasting their time because of your fear based decisions. The truth is when we eliminate fear we often find the real path we were meant to be on.

~ Shannon L. Alder

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri