Quotes on Learning

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

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.

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.