Unexpected Learning Quotes

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.