Learning Quotes - Page 18

There is no lateness in life. Begin to pursue your dream.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.

Play it once for old times' sake. Play it twice to not forsake. And play it thrice if you cannot fake. Joyous life is your to take. You always get what you make.

Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.

Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

The more you know about something the less you fear about it.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily.

Something important I have learned is patience, and turning each failure into a learning experience. ..Instead of calling them "failures" I call them "lessons". Instead of saying, "I failed at that," I say, "I learned from that." Each failure has taught me something incredibly valuable and by recognizing this I can see the hand of God in my life in situations where most people would feel abandoned by Him.

Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.

Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

Experience is a necessary education.

Renewal of mind begins with reading and mediation on the Scriptures.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Leave no livid life in your days but vivid days in your life

Reading leads to good conduct

I think I’m learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Great literature makes a great life.

Read, re-read and un-read!

Life lessons cannot be applied topically.

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

A man who reads will find himself.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

Dreams of changing the world could only be realized by properly investing time into learning.

Failure is not defeat. It is the start of lifelong learning adventure.

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

We are here not to Make Money.We are here to Make a Difference.

Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Every person fails, nobody achieves everything that he or she set out to achieve. Nobody, regardless of how many personal triumphs they enjoy, no matter how rich or powerful they become, goes through life without encountering failure. You cannot fail unless a person valiantly tries to accomplish a task. The most audacious person readily attempts difficult projects, despite feeling uncertain if they can prevail. Successful people exhibit the character to respond positively to failure. Some failures prove instrumental in altering a person’s outlook, and their revised perspective leads to brilliant successes

You know you are changing when you no longer have points of references. Mapping a new life.

From one thing, know ten thousand things.

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

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding..

Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study.

Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.

If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?

Wisdom paints a rainbow in your mind, joy paints a rainbow in your heart, and love paints a rainbow in your soul.

When it comes to learning, there are no boundaries and restrictions literally; all you have to do is to start it where you are.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Books are sacred wisdom.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

Every child ought to be educated.

Without even trying to be a teacher, Fredrika is teaching us,Showing us how to see things in new waysInstead of always thinkingThe same old thoughtsThat have been passed along by strangersDay after day, year after yearWithout any spirit of amazementOr wonder,

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.