Learning Quotes - Page 10

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

We learn from failure, not from success!

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose
Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."

À qui la faute? (1872)

When you feel life at crossroads,
you need higher perspective view.

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.

To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories.

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age.

Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.

I am a student at heart, even a child can teach me something new.