#learning

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

"Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

"It doesn`t hurt to get more education."

"Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned."

"You are allowed to think whatever you want at Emory, so long as it is approved by administrators. They are watching."

"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."

"Sharing will enrich everyone with more knowledge."

"I am learning, and I believe I shall do quite well."

"You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character."

"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open."

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."- Frankenstein p115"

"I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet."

"We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends."

"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."

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."

"Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it."

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

"It's not always what we don't know that gets in our way; sometimes it's what we think we know that keeps us from learning."