Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish.

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

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

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

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.

If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details.

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

If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

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!

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

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

If you want to make a mark you have to take a risk.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.

I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.

I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.

I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.