Quotes about Learning
If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.
— Frank Herbert
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.
— Eugene Peterson
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
— John Wooden
Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.
— Norman Geisler
I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.
— Heath Ledger
When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.
— Abhijit Banerjee
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
— Joseph Addison
More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.
— Julie Andrews
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
— Lewis Carroll
I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
— Brendon Burchard
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.
— Sean Covey