Learning Quotes
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Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.
Jonathan Swift
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Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.
Izabel Goulart
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I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.
Emma Stone
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If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
Alfie Kohn
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It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
Keith Braithwaite
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We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
Alison Gopnik
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The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.
Lao Tzu
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
Seneca the Younger
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What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything as imperfect and fallible as an actual human being?
Ellen Kushner
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Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.
Mya
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There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
Carrie Fisher
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Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.
Thomas Carlyle
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
Seneca the Younger
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
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Our goal is for our kids to be intentional about everything they do --- to reject passivity and mindless consumption and to embrace an ethos of action, of productivity, of meaningful work, of genuinely lifelong learning.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.
Margaret Mitchell
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When the problem quantum chromodynamics is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.
Richard Feynman
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When children start learning math in school, they already have a basic understanding of the concepts. This understanding should guide teachers to work on enhancing these skills.
Elizabeth Spelke
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
Lois McMaster
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
William Penn
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I am happy being an actor. Donning the hat of a producer was a tough job and a different experience, as it involved watching the crew's requirements, keeping track of the finances, and also perfecting my role as an actor. But it was a tremendous learning experience.
Nivin Pauly
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Failure is the mechanism of learning.
Geoffrey Ballard
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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
William Glasser