Learning Quotes

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

~ Myles Horton

She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge herself with more complex parts--and also wanted others to think of her as being more than a caricature....Anytime she had an opportunity to broaden her mind, she wanted to take advantage of it.

~ J. Randy Taraborrelli

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we’re on the right track.

~ Orson Scott Card

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

~ Randy Alcorn

By all means, learn beyond the classroom. In the end, thats all that will matter

~ Gossy Ukanwoke

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

~ Dean Koontz

The capacity to learn is a gift, The ability to learn is a skill, The willingness to learn is a choice.

~ Brian Herbert

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

~ Idries Shah

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things!

~ Walter C. Wright

School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?

~ Ray Bradbury

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.

~ James Lee Burke

...the difference between me and her is that she loves being smart, and I love learning, and those are two very different things.

~ Brynna Gabrielson

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

~ William Glasser

Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it?  That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.

~ John Buchan

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you,” and I was now living that mantra.

~ Kimberly Novosel

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?The student replied: “Everything!Kobun, paused, then said: “No, you.

~ Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk lamp was bright on a page. I loved the smell of fresh-cut grass. It was a thing everybody loved, but there was no shame in being that much like everybody else, in sharing that.

~ Frederick Barthelme

The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.

~ James Marcus Bach

To truly learn from someone or something, one must first learn to love them.

~ Silvia Hartmann

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

~ Mike Schmoker

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It was OK to need people, she was learning that. You just had to be careful.

~ Nicole Richie

This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They were always my heroes, creating something fantastic against all odds, and against their real life.

~ Christian Tetzlaff

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.

~ James Madison

A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.

~ Shaykh Sa Di

Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.

~ K. G. Johnson

What I learned on my own I still remember

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

~ Terry Pratchett

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you’re better off not touching it until you’re all grown up. I’m going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don’t open it.

~ Philip Pullman

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

~ Sarah Dessen

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

~ Idries Shah

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

~ Raymond Carver

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

~ Murasaki Shikibu

If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?

~ John Flanagan

To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on — not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking.

~ Lori Mcwilliam Pickert