Isaac Watts Quotes

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

I grow old learning something new every day.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

I feel like I'm constantly learning. Constantly trying to grow.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

I see myself as a student. Trying to learn everything.

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

It's good to always try to learn and try to grow.

You never can stop learning.

I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.