Quotes about Learning
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
— Lou Holtz
When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.
— Drew Houston
If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.
— Madeleine L'Engle
An old ass knows more than a young colt
— Madeleine L'Engle
People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?
— Madeleine L'Engle