Quotes on Learning

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

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.

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

After the final no there comes a yes_x000D_ And on that yes the future world depends.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning, and teach thinking, and in the process discover the passion and moral purpose that makes teaching exciting and effective.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

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

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.