“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
Learning does not stop when school ends — if anything, that is when it really begins. These quotes celebrate curiosity, growth, the discomfort of being a beginner, and the deep satisfaction of understanding something that confused you yesterday.
“So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.”
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.”
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
“No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.”
“Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.”
“You keep learning all the time.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.”
“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.”
“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”
“Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.”
“When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.”
“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.”
“I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.”
“If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.”