Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.