Quotes: Learning

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

Learning what you don’t want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Yes – it’s the same in any other work – the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.