Learning Quotes

The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?"

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

Read at every wait;
read at all hours;
read within leisure;
read in times of labor;
read as one goes in;
read as one goest out.
The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.

Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.