Quotes about Learning

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

Convictions are lessons learned from experiences we'd never want to go through again, but wouldn't trade for anything in the world.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well - there was hardly a day when I didn't learn something new about them.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.