We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

it’s good to have things done withwhen they don’t workit’s also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you’ve failed with.

When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew)...

I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people do not have to learn the vast number of formulae they...

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

I use my understanding of jiu jitsu as a road map to learn other activities. I look for the similarities between the two, and use jiu jitsu as an allegory for whatever my new practice...

Regret for not learning; not for the mistakes you did.

There’s a difference between thinking you can’t be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

…whatever God found worth creating we can find worth studying.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?’ is all very well. But what about ‘How otherwise could I have done it?

Mengajar adalah semacam pertunjukan yang harus menarik.

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure...

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea – for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.

The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he’ll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he’ll want to learn. Knowledge...

This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They...

I knew that iridium-193 was one of two stable isotopes of iridium, a very rare, very dense metal, but I didn’t know that the periodic table even existed.I knew how many zeroes there were in...

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s...

Failure is an adventure for continuous learning.

There are valuable lessons to be learnt in every stage of life.

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

Learn well and play well.

Dare to seek knowledge; it is like a search for a valuable treasure.

What is clear is that Scripture requires both head and heart, and you need to see it not just as a text but as the very words of God. This will encourage you to pay...

Be thankful for your achievements; be thankful for your accomplishments, no matter how big or small. Be thankful for the mind to complete the accomplishments. Be thankful for your past, present, and future. And know...

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

If there is one lesson I’ve learned from failure and success, it’s this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside...

Time’ is the most threatening four letter word.

We don’t live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people’s experience as a reference too.

With just enough of learning to misquote

Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open; let everything enters the house!

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.