Learning Quotes - Page 8

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren't comfortable with that.

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

The brain is wider than the sky.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone!

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.