Quotes about Learning

It's definitely important for kids to learn in many different settings.

I am always pleasantly surprised by the criticism because I learn from it and sometimes shocked by it.

We all have shortcomings.

In England, you pass from A to B, and it goes to B, but in Barcelona, you have to go to D and then to F, and it really works your brain.

attention and the awareness that arises from it are the doorway to true education and learning — life-long gifts that keep deepening with use.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Suffering doesn't teach you about yourself from a textbook—it teaches you from experience. It empties you so that by faith you can be filled with His Spirit.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)