Quotes About Learning

That's why I liked the Suzuki method of teaching piano. There are seven books, and everybody has to start with Book One. Each book includes ten to fifteen songs, and you have to go in order. Kids who practice hard get assigned new songs each week, whereas kids who don't practice get stuck on the same song for weeks, even months, and sometimes just quit because they're bored out of their minds.

That's the first step to learning: admitting what you don't know.

A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use.

Even if I could live forever," she said to the baby, "I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason. "But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well.

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

He should go away and study, let his mind wander freely. Until then, he should not be obeisant in spirit to those who trampled it.

old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history

Tengo más experiencia que los demás, he vivido algo que casi nadie conoce a mi edad

more damaging was his conviction that we live by a series of repetitions until the experience is solved, understood, liquidated...

Yes, you have told me, over and over again, in a hundred different ways, but I am slow, Anaïs, slow perhaps because it is such delicious torture.

I want to give you an idea. . . . "Ask some rector for a copy of the Apocrypha". . .. "Read Rabelais in old French." "Reread Cervantes" .

En voyage, j'absorbe tout et l'ajoute à moi-même.

I never want to try and be a thinker again. I'm not a thinker. I'd really like to read what somebody else wrote about Lawrence, and, by God, hereafter I will.

Don't hesitate to betray your ignorance. It's no crime.

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Demanding accountability is no game, and there's nothing wrong with trying to understand who made mistakes, who failed.

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

Leo demasiado; todo eso fermenta.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.

Sti picciotti parivano poter assorbiri tutto con 'na facilità che forsi era sulo di superfici, ma di 'na superfici enormi, globali, che era la superfici del munno 'ntero. A lui avivano 'nsignato di scinniri 'n profunnità, loro avevano 'mparato a navicari a mari aperto.

The beauty of a Jewish education is that you learn how to argue.