Quotes about Learning

Life is not a fairy tale; it's a parade of events that help you accrue wisdom and courage and faith. You learn first that you can and, later, that you should.

Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.

In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.

When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.8

every month all the insurance contracts her company issues. Yes, she reads the same contracts over month after month, year after year. Why? Because experience has taught

encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.

PRINCIPLE 3 Talk about your own mistakes before criticising the other person.

Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.

I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.