#learning

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. ↗

— Julia Child

#lifelong-learning #love #education

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#faster #get #go #grow #learning

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#any #capacity #change #environment #learning

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ↗

— John Morley

#depart #found #great #great business #guiding

If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things! ↗

— Walter C. Wright Jr.

#learning #mistakes #teamwork #leadership

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#best way #independent #learning #sovereign #sovereign state

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#learning #life #self #self-knowledge #age

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you’re better off not touching it until you’re all grown up. I’m going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don’t open it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#children #learning #maturity #reading #age

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest [hu]man has learned anything of absolute value by living. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#ageing #learning #youth #age

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig? ↗

— Plato

#learning #truth #anger