Quotes on Learning

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,_x000D_ _x000D_ then it better not come at all.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.