Quotes about Learning

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.

Sometimes the best way to learn is to return to the fundamentals.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory, ' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Never underestimate your own ignorance.