Quotes by Learning What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends. Liz Carpenter learningcuriosityreal Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. Lord Chesterfield pocketslearningpeople What you are is a question only you can answer. Lois McMaster Bujold learningteachingreality We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight. Loren Eiseley learningteacherschool Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories. Lord Acton learningwritingfall A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession of something. Louis Agassiz learningstrongknowledge A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures. Lord Chesterfield passionlearningignorance There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. Louis Kentner pieceslearningimpossible Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them. Lord Chesterfield learningreadingbook 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. Louis L'Amour learningwishbook She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. Louisa May Alcott learningreadingbook I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Louise Bourgeois learningdiscoveryscience It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes. Louise Hay positivitylearningmistake It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Louisa May Alcott learningtimemen All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me. Louise Hay learningeducationteacher The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses. Lucy Larcom intelligencelearningintellectual It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so. Lucy Larcom learningexpectationsmistake God is in the details. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe learningeducationalgod First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe learningeducationfirsts I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn. Louise Hay learningreligiousthinking«5556575859606162636465»
