Quotes About Learning

Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

Little intimidates a man more than a learned woman.

Nory was preparing to take a Big Test. The Big Test, for the second time. The first time had been a disaster. Nory was in fifth grade.

Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood.

If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.

So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.

there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy—other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington—it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty.

the amateur historian's next stop after Boy, people used to be so stupid is People: still stupid.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. The more knowledge, the better seems like the a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

If we are all going to have tragedies, if none of us can escape them, then surely we have to learn from them, we have to gain something. And we have to use what we have gained. Those of us who have fought tooth and nail to overcome tragedy are, after all, nothing else, proof that such things can be survived. So we can actually help others survive their tragedies too. As long as they'll let us.

Ik krijg niet de indruk dat de Autodidact zin heeft om te praten. Wat kijkt hij me vreemd aan: hij kijkt niet om iets te zien, maar om een soort zielsgemeenschap tot stand te brengen. De ziel van de Autodidact is omhooggestegen en in in zijn fraaie, nietsziende ogen aan de oppervlakte gekomen. Hij wil dat mijn ziel hetzelfde doet, dat ze haar neus tegen de ruiten zal drukken: dan kunnen onze zielen beleefdheden uitwisselen.

anubhav?vas?nameva vidy? phalam. The fruit of knowledge, the fruit of vidy? is anubhava.

It's when you don't win that you learn things about yourself. Everything I have gone through has made me who I am today.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.

Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument—that, friends, is real wisdom.

In any true life you must go and be exposed outside the small circle that encompasses two or three heads in the same history of love.

He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted—must be relinquished

One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow.

Roumanian is an easy language. You just add a tl to everything.

The people who come to evening classes are only ostensibly after culture. Their great need, their hunger, is for good sense, clarity, truth – even an atom of it. People are dying – it is no metaphor – for lack of something real to carry home when day is done.

what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.