Quotes About Learning

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.

That is one of the advantagers of being thirteen. You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve

I love books. I hope to grow up to have lots of them.

Devemos nos arrepender dos erros e aprender com eles, mas nunca carregá-los conosco para o futuro. - Sra. Allan

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?

Czy to nie przyjemnie, ?e jest tak du?o rzeczy, które jeszcze poznamy? To wÅ'aÅ›nie sprawia, ?e ja siÄ™ tak cieszÄ™ ?yciem... Å›wiat jest taki ciekawy... Nie byÅ'by taki ani w poÅ'owie, gdybyÅ›my wszystko o nim wiedzieli, prawda?

You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming, said Marilla. The trouble with you, Anne, is that you'll expect to teach those children everything and reform all their faults right off, and if you can't you'll think you've failed.

El humor es el más picante de los condimentos en el festín de la existencia. Ríanse de sus errores pero aprendan de ellos; alégrense en sus penas pero ganen fuerza con ellas; hagan un chiste de las dificultades, pero vénzanlas. Ana de la isla.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up What's that? - It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said: this is a man, this is a house, etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then?

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion

476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc. etc., - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc. etc.

Lessi così di tutto un po', disordinatamente; ma libri, in ispecie, di filosofia. Pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole.

Leone: Ah, Venanzi, it's a sad thing, when one has learnt every move in the game. Guido: What game? Leone: Why . . . this one. The whole game — of life. Guido: Have you learnt it? Leone: Yes, a long time ago

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Whenever I renew a commitment to studying raptors or gulls or crows or the birds in my backyard, more are given, more show themselves. Our efforts are rewarded, our studies are enhanced in experience. I cannot explain this, and I am reluctant to sound to woo-woo but we can take this as confidently as if it came from the Oracle at Delphi: the more we prepare, the more we are allowed somehow to see.

I realize that in giving birth, managing a household, raising a child, and composting potato peels in a city, I have learned some things about wildness that even Thoreau could not have known.

both confidence and consolation. E. O. Wilson wrote: "You start by loving a subject. Birds, probability theory, stars, differential equations, storm fronts, sign language, swallowtail butterflies.… The subject will be your lodestar and give sanctuary in the shifting mental universe.

Whenever I renew a commitment to studying raptors or gulls or crows or the birds in my backyard, more are given, more show themselves. Our efforts are rewarded, our studies are enhanced in experience.