Learning Quotes - Page 11

Your world is as big as you make it.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.

It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.

But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.