4,503 Quotes About Learning

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.

Will you get it right every time? No, my friend, you will not. You’ll need to appreciate that there’s learning in failure and that tomorrow is another day to try again. You may get discouraged, but I hope you’ll see enough success that you won’t give up. Failure is essential for progress.

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

To get answers to life, ask questions.

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.