Quotes About Learning

There is a wonderful word, why? , that children use. All children. When they stop using it, the reason, too often, is that no one bothered to answer them, no one tried to keep alive one of the most important attributes a person can have: interest in the world around him.

But the withholding of information from a child either frustrates him or makes him seek it for himself. And the trouble with the latter method is that it is apt to make the child feel both guilty and dishonest.

Often people have asked me, "How do you recover from disaster?" I don't know any answer except the obvious one: You do it by meeting it and going on. From each you learn something, from each you acquire additional strength and confidence in yourself to meet the next one when it comes.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Lila shook her head skeptically. She was trying to understand, we were both trying to understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.

Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it.

I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.

Si te enseñan las cosas bien desde pequeña, de mayor todo te cuesta menos, te convierte en alguien que parece haber nacido enseñada.

had always studied in disorder.

Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night. I was small and really my doll knew more than I did.

Do men learn from women? Often. Do they admit it publicly? Rarely, even today.

Olhei para ela, confusa. Com quase treze anos, não sabíamos nada de instituições, leis, justiça. Repetíamos, e às vezes fazíamos com convicção o que tínhamos ouvido e visto à nossa volta desde a primeira infância. A justiça não se realizava na porrada?

I've known how to whistle since I was five years old.

La madurez consistía en aceptar el curso que había tomado la existencia sin agitarse demasiado, trazar un surco entre la práctica cotidiana y el aprendizaje teórico, aprender a verse, a conocerse a la espera de los grandes cambios

Do you think Dino is intelligent?" "All children are, you just have to train them.

Talent is insufficient: if it's not cultivated, it ends up, in the best cases, inventing the wheel, only to discover that this has been done already.

La biblioteca per lei era una grande risorsa. Chiacchiera dietro chiacchiera, mi mostrò fieramente tutte le tessere che aveva, quattro: una sua, una intestata a Rino, una a suo padre e una a sua madre. Con ciascuna prendeva un libro in prestito, così da averne quattro tutti insieme. Li divorava e la domenica successiva li riportava e ne prendeva altri quattro.

Ma - s'era detto - quello che è bene e quello che è male le persone ci mettono tempo a capirlo, e aiutarle significa proprio fare per loro ciò che in un determinato momento della loro vita non sono capaci di fare.

that my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn't books that made people good but good people who made some good books.

If I'd known that to get a diploma and a degree Al you needed to have was free time, to be shut up in a place without worrying about earning a living, and, with discipline, learning by heart pages and page of some books, I would have done it before," he said once, in a teasing tone.

Studieren galt als ein Trick der pfiffigsten jungen Leute zur Vermeidung harter Arbeit.

Non basta conoscere l'alfabeto, pensò, le difficoltà sono tante.

L'infanzia è una fabbrica di menzogne che durano all'imperfetto

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