Learning Quotes - Page 79

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great deal in order to achieve this goal.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

I learned a lesson that I keep learning over and over, and that is that the most fun is to watch our main characters interact with each other. The most fun comes from their tight interaction.

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.